Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6555233 | Legal Medicine | 2018 | 29 Pages |
Abstract
The present study is an attempt to estimation of stature and sex from sacrum and coccyx measurements by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in a contemporary Chinese population. Nine measurements for every sacrum and coccyx were taken from CT image of 350 Chinese. The sample is composed of 190 males and 160 females with an average age of 55 and 50â¯years, respectively. Discriminant function was used in sex estimation and regression analysis was used in stature estimation from these two bones. The stepwise analysis of all measurements yielded a sex classification accuracy rate of 84.9%. The classification accuracy rates of the univariate discriminant function analyses are 58.3%-76.9%. For stature estimation, the accuracy of stature prediction ranged from 4.891 to 6.107â¯cm for male, from 4.474 to 5.606â¯cm for female, respectively. This paper provides indications that the sacrum and coccyx are important bones for sex estimation and they could be effectively used as alternatives in forensic cases when the skull and pelvis are unavailable. Furthermore, the regression equations presented in this study may be useful for forensic estimation of the stature of Chinese individuals, particularly in cases where better predictors such as the long bones are not available.
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Authors
Meng-jun Zhan, Fei Fan, Li-rong Qiu, Zhao Peng, Kui Zhang, Zhen-hua Deng,