*Assoc. Prof, Department of Forensic Medicine, People's College of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
**Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, E-mail:singhvp@gmail.com
***Director Principal, Guru Nanak Mission Medical College & Hospital, Dhahan Kaleran, Distt. Sbs Nagar, Punjab-144505
****Prof (Retd.), GMC, Patiala
Online published on 27 November, 2013.
Radiological technique is most reliable and informative of all the available methods for assessing age i.e. physical development, secondary sex characters, height and weight measurement, eruption of teeth, especially in the young. Anatomical method and Haversian canal technique for determination of age of an individual are, however, obsolete now a days. External inspection of the dead permits only an approximate estimate of age and it is liable to error by upto 10 years in adults.
In the present study 100 individuals are studied between the age group of 16 to 25 years in male and female separately i.e. 50 males and 50 females, whose X-ray examination is done at Rajindra Hospital; Patiala, Punjab. The study is undertaken to know the time of fusion of epiphyses of ischial tuberosity. In this study, every individual's X-ray pelvis AP view is taken to know fusion of ischial tuberosity epiphysis.Epiphysis of ischial tuberosity fused in majority of cases by the age of 20–21 year in both male and female. Earliest union occurred at 18 years in males and 17 years in females.
Epiphyseal fusion, X-ray, Age Estimation, Ischial tuberosity
