Morphometric evaluation of the foramen magnum for sex determination: A study from Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Hind S. Al Saif, Hossain A. A. Alola, Mohammed Madadin, Ritesh G. Menezes, Abid Hussain Gullenpet, Afnan Al Muhanna, Bander Al Dhafery, K.R. Nagesh, Magdy A. Kharoshah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Population Right occipital condyle Saudi Arabia Computed tomography Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Multidetector Computed Tomography Left occipital condyle Medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Foramen Magnum education Aged education.field_of_study Foramen magnum medicine.diagnostic_test Atomic force microscopy business.industry Forensic anthropology Discriminant Analysis 030206 dentistry General Medicine Anatomy Middle Aged Sex Determination by Skeleton medicine.anatomical_structure Forensic Anthropology Female business Law |
| Zdroj: | Journal of forensic and legal medicine. 46 |
| ISSN: | 1878-7487 |
| Popis: | The present study provides a database of various morphometric dimensions of the foramen magnum region in the Saudi population. The objective of this study was to evaluate various measurements of the foramen magnum region for sex determination in the Saudi population by using computed tomography (CT) images. The various radiological measurements of the foramen magnum region were measured in a total of 200 adult subjects of Saudi origin including 100 males and 100 females. Sexual dimorphism was observed in five parameters related to the foramen magnum, namely length of the right occipital condyle (LROC), length of the left occipital condyle (LLOC), width of the foramen magnum (WFM), area of the foramen magnum (AFM) and length of the foramen magnum (LFM). The accuracy to discriminate sex ranged from 65.5% to 62.5% when LROC, LLOC, WFM, AFM, and LFM were considered as individual parameters. When multiple parameters were combined to discriminate sex, the highest accuracy of 71% was achieved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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