1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Index Medical College, Indore
2Dean, GMC, Khandwa
3Associate Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MGM, Medical College, Indore
Online published on 28 January, 2019.
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 medicolegal cases and the accuracy depends on the nature of material available and the methods applied. Sternum is a bone which is easily retrievable even from the advanced decomposed body and also from the bundle of bones, so it becomes a very important bone for age and sex determination in the advanced stage of decomposition and from mutilated, fragmented bodies.
In our study we have taken a total of 770 subjects of which 432 were male and 338 female, in the age group of 10 to 70 years and the data analysis was done by using SPSS software and p-value and standard deviation was calculated. At the end, conclusions were drawn which were inconsistent with available literatures. In our study, age estimation in relation to fusion of sternal body segment was found inconclusive.
Anthropometry, Age estimation, Sternum, Body Segment Fusion
