caa a22 4500 469094532 CHVBK 20180323133027.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00241815 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00241815 Joseph Keenan Alyn Hospital, P.O. Box 9117, Jerusalem, Israel aut The metacarpal index — obsolete in Marfan syndrome! [Elektronische Daten] [Keenan Joseph] 28 patients with definite, probable or phenotypic Marfan syndrome underwent manual and computerised measurement of their metacarpal indices. Two methods were used from among the several variations quoted in the literature, one involving the average length/width of metacarpals 2-5 (method I), and the other dividing the sum of the lengths by the sum of the widths of these metacarpals (method II). The two methods are not mathematically identical, and a statistically significant difference was noted between them. Only 50% of the children in each group had elevated metacarpal indices, making it a time-consuming method that is indicative only of the phenotype and can be found in normal individuals. It should therefore be considered an obsolete measurement in Marfan syndrome. International Skeletal Society, 1992 Metacarpal index nationallicence Marfan syndrome nationallicence Skeletal Radiology Springer-Verlag 21/6(1992-08-01), 371-374 0364-2348 21:6<371 1992 21 256 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241815 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241815 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Joseph Keenan Alyn Hospital, P.O. Box 9117, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Skeletal Radiology Springer-Verlag 21/6(1992-08-01), 371-374 0364-2348 21:6<371 1992 21 256 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer