Anatomical variability of the intertragal notch shape of the auricle in young men

Objective: to determine the typological features of the intertragal notch (ITN) shape of the auricles (AU) in young men. Material and methods. After somatotyping and cephalotyping of 140 young men both right and left AU werephotographed. 25 marks were applied on the images of AU along the margin of the ITN by digitizer tpsDіg2 2.31. We performed a procedure for superposition of label configurations using the method of generalized Procrustean analysisusing MorphoJ 1.06d soft. Procrustean coordinates were determined, characterizing the variability of the ITN shapeof the right and left AU. A oneway ANOVA was carried out on the obtained data with the determination of Goodall’sF-criterion, which was used to determine the strength of the influence of the cephalotype and somatotype of the young men on ITN shape both left and right AU. The significance level of the F-criterion is set at 0.05. To visualize the changein the shape of the ITN of AU of the corresponding side, the method of transformation grid was used.