1Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Command Hospital Kolkata, Pune
2Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Armed Forced Medical College, Pune
3Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Armed Forced Medical College, Pune
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Ishita Manral, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Command HospitalKolkata, West Bengal Contact: +917726307790 Email: atihsi532@gmail.com
INTRODUCTION: Age estimation of individuals is a usual case faced by Forensic Practitioners. Establishment of the individuality of a person can be absolute or partial. Every age has medico-legal importance in this era. Age estimation as seen in the courts of law can be for age confirmation as in pension, benefits of senior citizen or in dementia cases. Cranial sutures with other criteria are helpful for age estimation.
Materials and Methods: We studied skull roentgenogram of patients who had been advised roentgenogram for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose from clinical departments. We studied the fusion of coronal sutures in those roentgenograms where age was known after match with a relevant identity document. The suture was divided into upper half and lower half and stage of fusion was documented. We followed the Key et al stage of fusion of sutures.
Results: We found the earliest beginning of fusion occurred in coronal suture at 40 years and 31 years in its upper half and lower half respectively. The earliest complete fusion occurred at 56 years in upper half and 50 years at lower half.
Coronal Suture, Roentgenogram, Skull, Female, Fusion, Stage
