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Title: Evaluation of the ossification of the medial clavicle according to the Kellinghaus substage system in identifying the 18-year-old age limit in the estimation of forensic age-is it necessary?
Authors: Gürses, Murat Serdar
Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Adli Tıp Anabilim Dalı.
Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Radyoloji Anabilim Dalı.
İnanır, Nursel Türkmen
Soylu, Esra
Gökalp, Gökhan
Kır, Elif
Fedakar, Recep
AAI-2336-2021
AAH-6287-2021
56712925300
57200888554
8312505100
57192388153
8725968900
Keywords: Legal medicine
Computed tomography
Forensic age estimation
Kellinghaus substage method
Medial clavicular epiphysis
Computed-tomography
Living individuals
Conventional radiography
Ct evaluation
Time frame
Epiphysis
Diagnostics
Stage
Issue Date: 2-Dec-2016
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Gürses, M. S. vd. (2017). ''Evaluation of the ossification of the medial clavicle according to the Kellinghaus substage system in identifying the 18-year-old age limit in the estimation of forensic age-is it necessary?''. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 131(2), 585-592.
Abstract: The evaluation of the ossification of the medial clavicular epiphysis being part of an assigned expert approach according to standard plays an important role within civil and criminal proceedings in assessing whether a person has reached her/his 19th or 22nd year of age. Evaluation of the medial clavicular epiphysis with thin-section CT is one of the methods recommended by the Study Group on Forensic Age Diagnostics of the German Association of Forensic Medicine. In this retrospective study, we evaluated the thin-section CT (section thickness of 0.6 and 1 mm) images of 254 patients (146 male, 108 female) with an age range of 13-28 years according to the Kellinghaus substage system. The mean values of female patients were observed to be about 10 months lower for stage 2a than the mean values of the male patients, about 13 months lower for stage 2b, and about 18 months lower for stage 2c. The earliest appearance for stage 3c was at 19 years in both sexes. Our data from this study were consistent with both our previous studies and the data of other studies. We think that stage 3c is important in determining whether a person has reached the age of 18 or not and, therefore, that the Kellinghaus substage system is a requirement in the assessment of forensic age.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-016-1515-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-016-1515-0
1437-1596
http://hdl.handle.net/11452/30107
ISSN: 0937-9827
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