Comparisons in Soft-Tissue Thicknesses on the Human Face in Fresh and Embalmed Corpses Using Needle Puncture Method Comparaci車n en el Grosor del Tejido Blando de la Cara, con el M谷todo de Punci車n con Aguja, en Cad芍veres Frescos y Conservados

作者：Ivan Claudio Suazo Galdames; Mario Cantin Lopez; Daniela Alejandra Zavando Matamala; Francisco Javier Perez Rojas

来源：International Journal of Morphology, 2008.

• Reconstruccion facial
• Grosor de tejido blando
• Identificacion
• Embalsamamiento
• Cadaveres
• Facial reconstruction
• Soft-tissue thickness
• Identification
• Embalming
• Cadavers

The aim of the present study is to analyze the differences in the soft facial tissue thicknesses measured in corpses without fixing, with recent death, and in embalmed corpses. 30 male human corpses were used; they were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of a conservation method. Fifteen bodies, without any method of conservation, with an average age of 38.6 years (SD 8.37) and Fifteen preserved bodies by means of the intravascular injection technique of fixing conservative solution on the basis of formaldehyde, with an average age of 38.4 years (SD 7.67). In each one of them the thickness was measured in eight medium and six bilateral paramedium landmarks, using the needle-punction method. The descriptive statistical ones were calculated and the t test was applied with 95% of significance. All the landmarks, except for right exocanthion and left and right gonion, presented bigger thickness in the cadavers embalsamed. You differ significant they were in the Trichion, glabella, nasion, pogonion, right superciliare, right supraorbital, right infraorbital, right gonion, left superciliare, left supraorbital, right infraorbital landmarks. El prop車sito de este estudio fue analizar las diferencias en el grosor tisular facial entre cad芍veres frescos y conservados. Se utilizaron 30 cad芍veres de sexo masculino, 15 de los cuales presentaron una data de muerte media de (SD) y los otros 15 fueron cad芍veres conservados mediante inyecci車n intravascular de soluci車n fijadora conservadora en base a formol. En cada uno de ellos fueron medidos los grosores en 8 puntos medianos y 6 puntos paramedianos bilaterales, utilizando el m谷todo de punci車n con aguja. Se calcularon los estad赤sticos descriptivos y luego se aplic車 el t test con un 95% de significancia. Todos los puntos, con excepci車n de Exocanthion derecho y Gonion derecho e izquierdo, presentaron grosores mayores en los cad芍veres conservados. Diferencias significativas se encontraron en los puntos Trichion, Glabela, Nasion, Pogonion, Superciliar derecho, Supraorbitario derecho, Infraorbitario derecho, Gonion derecho, Superciliar izquierdo, Supraorbitario izquierdo, Infraorbitario derecho.