Volume 12 Issue 2

Table of Content Volume 12 Issue 2 - November 2019

Thumbs sign in obesity: You do not need to check the weigh, instead watch your thumbs

Shishirkumar¹, Shivarama CH^2*, Roshan S³, Chethana YK⁴, Nishitha⁵

^1,2,3Associate Professor, ^4,5Tutor Department of Anatomy, Kanachur Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore.

Email: drshivac@gmail.com

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