HUMAN IDENTIFICATION ESTABLISHED BY THE ANALYSIS OF FRONTAL SINUS SEEN IN ANTEROPOSTERIOR SKULL RADIOGRAPHS USING THE MENTO-NASO TECHNIQUE – A FORENSIC CASE REPORT
| Autor: | Ademir Franco, Rhonan Ferreira Silva, Lívia Graziele Rodrigues, Scheila Manica, Raquel Porto Alegre Valente Franco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Orthodontics
Frontal sinus 030504 nursing Adult male business.industry Radiography Context (language use) Autopsy 03 medical and health sciences Skull 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Forensic odontology Identification (biology) 030216 legal & forensic medicine 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Revista Brasileira de Odontologia Legal. :62-66 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Human identification is a challenging task, especially when the available information detected during the dental autopsy is scarce. In this context, distinctive morphological information may play a valuable role as additional and alternative identifiers. Objective: To report a case of human identification aided by the morphological analysis of the frontal sinus through anteroposterior radiographs of the skull with the mento-naso technique. Material and methods: The body of an edentulous adult male highly decomposed was referred to the local medico-legal institute for identification. The alleged relatives of the victim provided the comparative antemortem data (AM) – consisting of an anteroposterior (AP) skull radiograph taken with mento-naso projection. A postmortem AP radiograph of the deceased was taken in order to reproduce the AM data and to enable a comparative procedure. Results : The morphological information of the frontal sinuses converged between AM and PM radiographs both for metric and non-metric evidences. Conclusion: The analysis of the frontal sinus may be an additional and alternative approach for human identification – especially for edentulous victims. |
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