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IJAR.2017.114

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Type of Article:  Original Research

Volume 5; Issue 1 (March 2017)

Page No.: 3587-3590

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.16965/ijar.2017.114

CLINICAL STUDY OF ABSENCE OF THE PALMARIS LONGUS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH OTHER ANATOMICAL ANOMALIES

Sukre Shivaji B 1, Kawale Deepak N *2.

1 Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, Government Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

*2 Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Government Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

Corresponding Author: Dr. Kawale Deepak N. Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Government  Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. E-Mail: kawale.deepak@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

Introduction: Palmaris longus (PL) is a muscle with a long tendon which is very useful in reconstructive surgery. It is well known that individuals may have unilateral or bilateral absence of palmaris longus.

Aim & Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of unilateral and bilateral absence of palmaris longus in study population.

Materials and Methods: The presence of the PL was clinically tested in 1000 normal medical students both male and female using the various standard techniques. In those students showing agenesis of PL other 4 separate tests were performed to confirmation of agenesis.

Results: The overall prevalence of the absence of PL was 16.2%. All techniques were equally effective in determining the absence of the PL. out of 162 PL agenesis 138 were females (27.6%) and 24 were males (4.8%). Unilateral agenesis was seen in 76 (15.2%) and bilateral in 86 (17.2%) subjects. The left-side agenesis was seen in 52 females (53.06%) and 46 males (46.93%) with the total of 98 (60.49%) subjects. The right-side agenesis was observed in 64 (39.5%) subjects; of which 41 (64.06%) were females and 23 (35.93%) were males. Out of 86 bilateral agenesis 51 (59.3%) were females and 35 (40.69%) were males.There was no significant difference in its absence with regard to the body side or sex.

Conclusions: There is no statistical association between the PL agenesis and gender, handedness, body sides and associated anomalies like absence of FDS to little finger, incomplete SPA in the studied population.Nearly all techniques of examining for the absence of the PL are equally effective but the method suggested by Mishra is quiet the better as it was easily understood by subjects and can be used even when thumb abduction is not possible.

Key words: Absence, Unilateral, Bilateral, Palmaris Longus.

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Cite this article: Sukre Shivaji B, Kawale Deepak N. CLINICAL STUDY OF ABSENCE OF THE PALMARIS LONGUS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH OTHER ANATOMICAL ANOMALIES. Int J Anat Res 2017;5(1):3587-3590. DOI: 10.16965/ijar.2017.114