- Title
- Contributions of the pars lateralis, pars basilaris and femur to age estimations of the immature skeleton within a South African forensic setting:
- Creator
- Thornton, Roxanne, Edkins, Adrienne L, Hutchinson, E F
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165451
- Identifier
- vital:41245
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/s00414-019-02143-9
- Description
- Dental development and eruption sequences have prevailed as the gold standard in age estimations of previously unidentified immature individuals within a legal context. However, in the absence of the dentition, skeletal assessments have served as a frequently applied alternative. While various cranial and postcranial skeletal elements have been used in estimating age of the immature skeleton, little is known about the anthropometric value of the pars basilaris, pars lateralis and femur as skeletal age estimation tools. Thus, this study aimed to assess if these bones of the immature human skeleton were useful elements in estimating the age of prenatal and postnatal individuals. These bones were excised from the remains of 74 unclaimed human immature individuals and evaluated using traditional anthropometric methods. The study sample was sourced from the Johannesburg Forensic Pathology Services (JFPS) and the Johannesburg Forensic Paediatric Collection (JFPC), University of the Witwatersrand and subdivided into an early prenatal (younger than 30 gestational weeks); late prenatal (30 to 40 gestational weeks) and postnatal (birth to 7.5 months) age ranges.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International journal of legal medicine, Thornton, R., Edkins, A.L. and Hutchinson, E.F., 2020. Contributions of the pars lateralis, pars basilaris and femur to age estimations of the immature skeleton within a South African forensic setting. International journal of legal medicine, 134(3), pp.1185-1193, International journal of legal medicine volume 134 number 3 1185 1193 August 2019 1437-1596
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