Triradii of The Palm in Primary Glaucoma Patients

Sharmila Pal; Subir Kumar Chattopadhyay; Tarun Kumar Danda; Premananda Bharati

Volume : III, Issue : XI, November - 2014

Triradii of The Palm in Primary Glaucoma Patients

Sharmila Pal, Subir Kumar Chattopadhyay, Tarun Kumar Danda, Premananda Bharati

Abstract :

Dermatoglyphics are the dermal ridges configurations on the digits, palms and soles. They are important in medical genetics chiefly because of their diagnostic usefulness. The present study was undertaken to investigate the existence of any correlation between dermatoglyphics and primary glaucoma. Seventy primary glaucoma patients (18 males, 52 females) and fifty normal healthy persons (22 males, 28 females) participated in this study. The parameters studied were a–b ridge count, main line index and angles – �atd�, �adt� and �dat�.