1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
2Director, Lady Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals, Connaught Place, New Delhi
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
4Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Online published on 6 February, 2014.
Fragmented skeletal remains are often presented for forensic evaluation which makes it difficult for the forensic investigator to derive basic anthropological profile of the decedent(s). Research workers have been trying to develop techniques that will enable them to overcome these problems. Earlier attempts notably by McKern and Steel were not successful when it was put to actual practice because of the vague nature of some of the vital anatomical landmarks. To overcome these, Simmons et al came up with a new approach. We adopted this technique to estimate length of femur from its fragments by analyzing 128 adult intact femora. The regression formulae thus obtained can be used while analyzing skeletal remains from North Indian population.
Maximum Femur Length, Fragmentary Femur, Anthropometry, Regression Equations
