Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

Stature Estimation Using Craniometric Analysis in the Adult Population of Dakshina Kannada-A Cross Sectional Study

  • Author:
  • Cherian Philemon Kurian1, Suraj Shetty2, Varsha Shetty2, Mahabalesh Shetty3,
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 44 to 48

1Post-graduate, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, KSHEMA, Mangalore

2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, KSHEMA, Mangalore

3Professor and Head of the Department Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, KSHEMA, Mangalore

*Corresponding author: Dr. Mahabalesh Shetty, Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, KSHEMA, Mangalore. E-mail: drmabs@yahoo.co.instature

Online published on 7 May, 2019.

Abstract

Stature estimation is very valuable in helping to identify the person to whom the human remains belong. Together with sex and age stature is one of the essential biological characteristics that can be evaluated from the skeleton even many years after death. The challenging task of establishing positive identification for the Forensic experts is usually encountered in cases of mass disaster, explosions, putrefied or skeletonised remains, dismembered bodies. The present study was conducted on 50 males and 50 females, a total of 100 deceased individuals brought for medico-legal autopsies in the Department of Forensic Medicine, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Mangaluru during September 2015 to September 2017 a period of 2 years. It was also observed that out of the two measurements taken, the maximum cranial length and maximum cranial breadth, the maximum cranial breadth shows a correlation with the height of the individual and it was statistically significant. The results were compared with previous studies and discussed.

Keywords

Identification, Maximum cranial breadth, Maximum cranial length, Putrefaction, Stature