1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad
2Professor, Department of Forensic medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad
3Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad
*Correspondence: Dr. Bandi Sree Ramulu Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Secunderabad-500003, Telangana, Email ID: drmadhu330@gmail.com
Online published on 7 February, 2017.
The determination of age in adolescents is important in medicolegal work. It arises in relation to fixing up of criminal responsibility, rape, kidnapping, awarding judicial punishment and employment.
To estimate age from epiphyseal fusions at shoulder joint in the local population of Hyderabad area in the age group of 14–16 years.
90 subjects (both male and female) between the age of 14 to 16 years in and around Hyderabad were studied. X-rays of the right shoulder joint was taken in the Anterior posterior view. Observations regarding the degree of epiphyseal union were recorded for each subject and tabulated in age groups.
Overall mean height of adolescents was found to be between 152± 8.02 cm and 149.71±6.12 cm in Adolescent males and females, respectively. Ossification was progressive with age in males of 14 to 16 years age and fusion of epiphysis with diaphysis was completed in about 46.6% of males of 16-years age group. In females, ossification was much more rapid that in males and by 16 years of age 93.4% of the female subjects showed fusion of the epiphysis with diaphysis.
The ossification at the Shoulder joint is completed in all instances at the age groups of 17–18 year. It was progressive in both sexes.
Epiphyseal Union, Shoulder Joint, Proximal end of Humerus
