All issues > Volume 37(7); 1994

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1994;37(7):924-927. Published online July 15, 1994.

Normal Values for Neonatal Periumbilical Skin Length

Young Pyo YP Chang¹, Hyung Suk HS Lim¹, Hye Won HW Park¹, Woong Huem WH Kim¹, Hee Ju HJ Kim¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Seoul City Boramae Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Malformations of umbilicus are feature of many dysmorphic syndromes and the measurement of periumbilical skin length should be considered as the basic step in the description of the umbilical malformations. So, we measured the periumbilical skin length in the 103 normal neonates and obtained the following results. 1) The means(+SD) of the periumbilical skin length were the 11.7mm(+3.0)in the cranial site and the 8.2mm(+2.5)in the caudal site, and the cranial length was 3.5mm longer than the caudal length. 2) No difference was observed between the male and female groups in the periumbilical skin length. 3) Age was the only statistically significant Variable associated with the periumbilical skin length and it was observed that the periumbilical skin length decreased according to the advance of age(hour).

Keywords :Periumbilical skin length, Normal newborn