Quantitative Analysis of Digitopalmar Dermatoglyphics in Forty Primary Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy Male Patients
By the quantitative dermatoglyphic analysis we have made research in 25 variables in number of epidermal ridges on palms and fingers in forty male patients with primary hypertophic osteoarthorpathy: on all ten fingers, on five fingers separately and their sum all to gether, between triradii a-b, b-c and c-d on one hand and both palms, their sum on one and both palms and atd angles on one and both hands and their sum all together. Obtained data were compared with control group of 200 healthy men from the Zagreb region in Croatia. Statistically significant differences to control by t-test we have found in 13 variables in the sense of increasing of number of epidermal ridges on second right finger their sum on five and both hands, then first, second, third, foruth and fifth finger left hand, then between triradii a-b of left hand. Decreased were atd angles on right and left palm, and both in degrees. Accordingly a polygenic system identical in some loci to polygenic system predisposing to male patients with primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy might be found responsible for dermatoglyphic pattern development