Study & study population

Right lung

Left lung

Oblique

Horizontal

Oblique

Complete

Incomplete

Absent

Complete

Incomplete

Absent

Complete

Incomplete

Absent

Medler (1947) [22]

United States

69.6

25.6 (307/1200)

4.8 (58/1200)

37.7

17.1 (205/1200)

45.2 (506/1200)

82.1

10.6 (127/1200)

7.3 (88/1200)

Lukose et al., 1999 [23] India

100

0

0

68.5

21 (4/19)

10.5 (2/19)

79

21 (4/19)

0

Meenakshi et al., 2004 [24] India

63.4

36.6 (11/30)

0

20.1

63.3 (19/30)

16.6 (5/30)

53.4

46.6 (14/30)

0

Bergman et al., 2008 [16] India

70

30 (83/277)

0

12

67 (186/277)

21 (58/277)

70

30 (83/277)

0

Bhardwaj et al., 2010 [44] India

53.6

39.3 (11/28)

7.1 (2/28)

42.9

50 (14/28)

7.1 (2/28)

53.6

35.7 (10/28)

10.7 (3/28)

Nene et al., 2011 [13] India

92

6 (3/50)

2 (1/50)

78

8 (4/50)

14 (7/50)

88

12 (6/50)

0

Dutta et al., 2013 [14] India

26.92

61.54

11.54

26.49

38.89

34.62

44

48

8

Jacob and Pillay, 2013 [29] India

46.6

50

3.4

10

83.4

6.6

61.1

38.9

0

Quadros et al., 2014 [34] India

94.46

5.55 (2/36)

0

63.88

25 (9/36)

11.11 (4/36)

97.5

2.5 (1/40)

0

Hema, 2014 [32] India

90

10

0

82

8

10

90

8

2

Varalakshmi et al., 2014 [35] India

74.2

21

4.8

60

30

10

82.1

10.6

7.3

George et al., 2014 [31] India

96.93

3.07

0

61.55

35.38

3.07

84.94

15.06

0

Kaul et al., 2014 [33] India

68

24

8

28

32

40

60

40

0

Magadum et al., 2015 [38] India

30

60

10

35

52.5

12.5

50

42.5

7.5

Divya et al., 2015 [37] India

89.3

10.7

0

28.6

50

21.4

77.8

14.8

7.4

Anbusudar and Dhivya, 2016 [41] India

72

28

0

36

44

20

68

32

0

Mamatha et al., 2016 [43] India

85

15

0

50

50

0

65

35

0

Sudikshya KC et al., 2018 [20] Nepal

69.57

30.43

0

52.18

34.78

13.04

48.15

51.85

0

Present study Kenya, Africa

63.16

36.84

0

47.37

42.11

10.53

55.26

34.38

0