Surgical Implications of Asymmetric Distribution of Dermal Collagen and Elastic Fibres in Two Orientations of Skin Samples from Extremities

Table 3

Descriptive analysis of ratio values of collagen (C) and elastic (E) fibres with respect to horizontal (H) and vertical (V) directions.

Areas	CV/CH ratio value	EV/EH ratio value
Shoulder joint	0.90^#	1.26^#
Wrist	1.07^#	1.28^#
Ankle	1.01	1.60^#
Forearm	0.99	0.99
Thigh	0.99	0.83^#

Ratio values of statistically significant quantitative fraction ().