The metacarpal index โ obsolete in Marfa
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Keenan N. Joseph
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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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