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Ageing of abrasions among Indian population compared to the West has a wide range of variations. There

is not much reported work from India as to the healing pattern and morphological appearance of abrasions

in correlation to time since injury. A cross sectional study of patients randomly selected for a naked eye

examination of the abrasions compared with standard colour-charts. Comparison was then made between

the standard literature and the data gathered to ascertain the applicability of the Western ndings on Indian

population. It is observed that fresh injuries and injuries which are more than 7 days old have a high

percentage of agreement with the available literature. The Spearman’s rho showed positive correlation

between time since injury and colour of abrasion to be 0.902 (p value<0.001). However those abrasions

which age between 12 hours to 7 days have a lesser percentage agreement with the available literature in

the standard text. The Spearman’s test of correlation for abrasions between 12 hours-7 days, after excluding

extreme intervals which correlated completely with literature, still showed high correlation (Correlation

Coecient- 0.749, p value <0.001).

In patients with head injury the percentage agreement falls to 50 percent, conveying a delay in healing

of abrasions. Subjects with diabetes in this study did not dier from other subjects in terms of healing

statistically, possibly due to small sub-sample size.