Reconstruction of femoral length from fragmentary femora
| Autor: | Jubilant Kwame Abledu, Casmiel Kwabena Osabutey, Eric Bekoe Offei |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Histology Forensic investigation Fragmentary femur 01 natural sciences Stature estimation 03 medical and health sciences Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Linear regression medicine Femur 030216 legal & forensic medicine Transverse diameter Mathematics Orthodontics 010401 analytical chemistry Reconstruction of femoral length Cell Biology musculoskeletal system Regression 0104 chemical sciences Surgery Transverse plane Standard error Head (vessel) Original Article Anatomy Applied Anatomy Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Anatomy & Cell Biology |
| ISSN: | 2093-3673 2093-3665 |
| Popis: | The reconstruction of femoral length (FL) from fragmentary femora is an essential step in estimating stature from fragmentary skeletal remains in forensic investigations. While regression formulae for doing this have been suggested for several populations, such formulae have not been established for Ghanaian skeletal remains. This study, therefore, seeks to derive regression formulae for reconstruction of FL from fragmentary femora of skeletal samples obtained from Ghana. Six measurements (vertical head diameter, transverse head diameter, bicondylar breadth, epicondylar breadth, sub-trochanteric anterior-posterior diameter, and sub-trochanteric transverse diameter) were acquired from different anatomical portions of the femur and the relationship between each acquired measurement and FL was analyzed using linear regression. The results indicated significantly moderate-to-high correlations (r=0.580-0.818) between FL and each acquired measurement. The error estimates of the regression formulae were relatively low (i.e., standard error of estimate, 13.66-19.28 mm), suggesting that the discrepancies between actual and estimated stature were relatively low. Compared with other measurements, sub-trochanteric transverse diameter was the best estimate of FL. In the absence of a complete femur, the regression formulae based on the assessed measurements may be used to infer FL, from which stature can be estimated in forensic investigations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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