1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
*Correspondence author: Dr Karnam Mamatha Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh Email ID: thesisusm@gmail.com
Online published on 17 August, 2016.
This study was aimed to estimate age from epiphyseal fusions at shoulder joint in the local population of Tirupati area in the age group of 14–16 years.
90 subjects (both male and female) between the age of 14 to 16 years in and around Tirupathi were studied. X-rays of the right shoulder joint was taken in the Anterior posterior view. Observations regarding the degree of epiphyseal union were recorded for each subject and tabulated in age groups.
Overall mean height of adolescents was found to be between 152± 8.02 cm and 149.71±6.12 cm in Adolescent males and females, respectively. Ossification was progressive with age in males of 14 to 16 years age and fusion of epiphysis with diaphysis was completed in about 46.6% of males of 16-years age group. In females, ossification was much more rapid that in males and by 16 years of age 93.4% of the female subjects showed fusion of the epiphysis with diaphysis.
The ossification at the Shoulder joint is completed in all instances at the age groups of 17–18 year. It was progressive in both sexes.
Epiphyseal Union, Shoulder Joint, Proximal end of Humerus
