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Frontal sinus parameters in computed tomography and sex determination
- Source :
- Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 19
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The frontal sinus is a sturdy part of the skull that is likely to be retrieved for forensic investigations. We evaluated frontal sinus parameters in paranasal sinus computed tomography (CT) images for sex determination. The study was conducted on 200 normal paranasal sinus CT images of 100 men and 100 women of Persian origin. We categorized the studied population into three age groups of 20-34, 35-49 and ⩾ 50 years. The number of partial septa in the right frontal sinus and the maximum height and width were significantly different between the two sexes. The highest precision for sex determination was for the maximum height of the left frontal sinus (61.3%). In the 20-34 years age-group, height and width of the frontal sinus were significantly different between the two sexes and the height of the left sinus had the highest precision (60.8%). In the 35-49 years age-group, right anterior-posterior diameter had a sex determination precision of 52.3%. No frontal sinus parameter reached a statistically significant level for sex determination in the ⩾ 50 years age-group. The number of septa and scallopings were not useful in sex determination. Frontal sinus parameters did not have a high precision in sex determination among Persian adults.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Population
Computed tomography
Right frontal sinus
Iran
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Age groups
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
Medicine
Humans
030216 legal & forensic medicine
education
Sinus (anatomy)
Frontal sinus
education.field_of_study
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
030206 dentistry
Anatomy
Middle Aged
Sex Determination by Skeleton
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Skull
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cross-Sectional Studies
Left frontal sinus
Frontal Sinus
Female
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18734162
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e461d4f9be468ba4645b51361242953