Morphometric Indicators of Head Sizes in Healthy Boys

Abstract

In healthy boys from newborn to 12 years of age, the morphometric indicators of the head in the second period of childhood showed a normal growth rate compared to the period of infancy: head circumference 1.5 times (25.3%), the longitudinal size of the skull base 1.7 times (15.3% ), the transverse size of the head is 1.7 times (20.8%), the transverse size of the forehead is 1.6 times (16.2%), the vertical diameter of the head is 2.0 times (20.7%), the longitudinal size of the skull base is 1.6 times (20.2%) and the transverse size of the head increased by 1.9 times (34.6%).