13rd Year Pg Resident, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology MGM, Medical College, Indore (M.P.)
2Professor & Head, Dept. Of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology MGM, Medical College, Indore (M.P.)
3Associate Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology MGM, Medical College, Indore (M.P.)
4Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, AIIMS, Patna
5Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology MGM, Medical College, Indore
*Corresponding Author Dr. Bajrang K. Singh Associate Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology MGM, Medical College, Indore (M.P.) Mob: 9713167594 Email: rahul1985220@gmail.com
Online published on 31 May, 2018.
Age determination from unknown human skeletal remains or decomposed bodies is an important initial step in forensic investigation. Accurate determination of skeletal Age has been a critical issue in medico legal cases and the accuracy depends on the nature of material available and methods applied. Sternum is a bone which is easily retrievable even from the advance decomposed body and also from the bundle of bone so it become very important bone for age and sex determination in the advance stage of decomposition and from mutilated, fragmented bodies. In our study we have taken Total 770 subject in which 432 male and 338 female was taken between the age group of 10 to 70 years and data analysis was done by using SPSS software and relevant statistical test was applied. In our study bisexual variation in relation to fusion of sternal body segment was found inconclusive.
Anthropometry, Bisexual variation, Age estimation, Sternum, body segment fusion
