Resumen de Comparisons in Soft-Tissue Thicknesses on the Human Face in Fresh and Embalmed Corpses Using Needle Puncture Method

Iván Suazo Galdames, Mario Gonzalo Cantín López, Daniela Alejandra Zavando Matamala, Francisco Pérez-Rojas, Sebastián Torres

• español

  El propósito de este estudio fue analizar las diferencias en el grosor tisular facial entre cadáveres frescos y conservados. Se utilizaron 30 cadáveres de sexo masculino, 15 de los cuales presentaron una data de muerte media de (SD) y los otros 15 fueron cadáveres conservados mediante inyección intravascular de solución 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 método de punción con aguja. Se calcularon los estadísticos descriptivos y luego se aplicó el t test con un 95% de significancia. Todos los puntos, con excepción de Exocanthion derecho y Gonion derecho e izquierdo, presentaron grosores mayores en los cadáveres 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.

• English

  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.