Estimation of age from epiphyseal fusion in iliac crest.
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2011-01
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Scientific estimation of age of an individual whether living, recently dead person, disintegrated and decomposed dead bodies, skeletal remains or incomplete skeleton or fragmentary remains is a vexing problem for medical jurist, in both civil and criminal cases and is an important part of examination in medico-legal practices. A large number of researchers have studied this process, hoping to understand its origin, evolution and consequences as well as to try to combat it. In the present study 100 individuals are studied between the age group of 16 to 25 years in male and female separately i.e. 50 males and 50 females, whose X- ray examination is done at Rajindra
Hospital; Patiala, Punjab. The study is undertaken to know the time of fusion of epiphyses of iliac crest. In this study, every individual’s X-ray pelvis AP view is taken to know fusion of iliac crest epiphyses.
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Epiphyseal fusion, Iliac crest, X-ray, Criminal, Civil
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Singh Pardeep, Gorea RK, Oberoi SS, Kapila AK. Estimation of age from epiphyseal fusion in iliac crest. Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine. 2011 Jan; 33(1): 24-26.