Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

A Study of Ossification of Capitate, Hamate, Triquetral & Lunate in Forensic Age Estimation

  • Author:
  • Ajay Balachandran1, Moumitha Kartha2, Anooj Krishna2, Thomas Jerry2, K Prathilash2, T N Prem2, G K Libu3, B Krishnan4, Liza John4
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 218 to 224

1Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, AIMS, Kochi

2Resident, AIMS

3Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, T.D. Medical College, Alappuzha

4Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, T.D. Medical College, Alappuzha

Abstract

The scenario where skeletal age estimation has to be employed arises only very rarely in infancy, but when needed, accurate and specific determination of age becomes imperative. The present study aims to evaluate the ossification of Capitate, Hamate, Triquetral and Lunate in the Kerala population by analyzing wrist X-Rays of 88 children under the age of 5.5 years. ROC curve analysis and ANOVA were the statistical tools employed.

Keywords

Age determination in the living, Capitate, Carpal Bone, Forensic Age Estimation, Hamate, Kerala Data, Lower end of Radius, Lunate, Skeletal Change, Triquetral