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ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2017

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?

Murat Serdar Gurses, Nursel Turkmen Inanir, Esra Soylu, Gokhan Gokalp, Elif Kir, Recep Fedakar

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Murat Serdar GursesTunceli Branch Office, Council of Forensic Medicine, Tunceli, Turkey. muratserdargurses@gmail.com.
Nursel Turkmen InanirDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.
Esra SoyluDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.
Gokhan GokalpDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.
Elif KirDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.
Recep FedakarDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.

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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.

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OsteogenesisAdolescentAdultAge Determination by SkeletonClavicleEpiphysesFemaleForensic AnthropologyHumansMaleMultidetector Computed TomographyRetrospective StudiesYoung AdultComputed tomographyForensic age estimationKellinghaus substage methodMedial clavicular epiphysis

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