INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY & LEGAL MEDICINE
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue: 3and4

Methodology of skeletal age estimation and sex determination with ossification centers of the sternum: An exploratory study

  • Author:
  • Vaishnavi Chaturvedi1, Leena Kumari1, Nitish Virmani3, Rakesh Dube1, Vijay Kumar4, Anupuma Raina2*
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 217 to 221

1SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

2Super specialty Division of Forensic Pathology & Molecular DNA Fingerprinting Laboratory, JPNATC, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New DelhiDelhiIndia

3Department of Radiology, SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

4Department of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, Amity University Haryana, India

*Corresponding Author Anupuma Raina, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, AIIMS, New Delhi, Email: anupumaraina@gmail.com

Online published on 15 February, 2021.

Abstract

Forensic anthropology deals with skeletal identification by formulating biological profiles specifically estimation of age, sex, ethnicity, and stature. The present study briefs about the link between gender identification and age by fusion between Manubrium and Mesosternum (MBSF), and Xiphoid process and Mesosternum (XMF). The exopolaroty study was conducted on 100 participants at SGT Hospital, Gurgaon, India. Based on the CT scanned data, the degree of fusion was observed as Partial fusion, Complete fusion, and Separate. Results revealed that at the age of 45 years, the MBSF and XSF fusion increases significantly from partial to complete. However, no significant fusion across gender was observed in XSF and MBSF.

Keywords

CT: Computerized Tomography, MBSF: XSF