Palmar Creases and Diseases: Cancer and Tuberculosis
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae
- Vol. 26 (3-4), 293-295
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001566000009806
Abstract
The palmar flexion creases of fully diagnosed patients of throat cancer (n = 120) and tuberculosis (n = 80) have been compared with a control group (n = 150) of the same stock. The palmar flexion creases of cancer and tuberculosis patients ate significantly different from those of the control population.Keywords
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