1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
2Director (Former Prof and Head: Department of Forensic Medicine), Lady Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals, Connaught Place, New Delhi
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
4Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
*Corresponding author: Thejaswi H T, Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029. Email: thejaswiht@gmail.com, Contact Number: +91-9873622475
Online published on 20 February, 2014.
Skeletal remains are often presented for forensic evaluation. Time and again they are in fragments which make it difficult for the forensic investigator to derive parameters of biological and medico legal significance. Thus forensic anthropologists have been trying to develop techniques that will enable them to overcome these problems. Earlier methods notably by McKern and Steel were not successful when it was put to actual practice. This was because the ambiguous nature of some of the crucial anatomical landmarks. To overcome these, Simmons et al came up with a new approach. We adopted this technique to estimate length of femur from its proximal fragments by analyzing 128 adult intact femora. The regression formulae thus obtained can be used while analyzing skeletal remains from North Indian population.
Maximum Femur Length, Fragmentary Femur, Anthropometry, Regression Equations
