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Introduction: The ideal rule of identification of sex and age is a sever need in medico legal cases. Sternum ismuch more appropriate for detection of sex and age of human beings separately from racial characters.Method: This study has been conducted on the total 100 subjects, 50 female (0-15 yrs) and 50 female (16-60yrs)of healthy people (living children & adults) from general population of north India as well as in and around theLucknow of Uttar Pradesh. The technique described by Ashley GT -1956b was used for measurement of sternum.Discussion: on the basis of observation and result in my present study it was fully supported and agree of theprevious researchers, who has done the work in measurement of sternum bone in cadaver and skeletal of human,because they told that the sterna has distinguish in different zone of India.Result: Comparing the mean length, Student’s t test showed significantly different and higher (8.1%) length ofmanubrium in 16-60 yrs female living adults as compared to 2-15 yrs female living children (44.47 ± 5.79 vs.48.38 ± 5.71, t=3.39, p=0.001).Conclusion: Different segment of sternum bone significantly different and higher length of manubrium, becausethe growth of sternum segment was completely develop in adult, but the development in children female iscontinuous in ratio of adults female.
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Introduction: The sternum is one of the skeleton parts with frequent variation in appearances on images or autopsy series. Method:Present study was carried out during the year 2010 and 2011 at Department of Forensic Medicine, P. D. U. Government Medical College, Rajkot. The study was carried out to find out congenital anomalies of sternum bone recovered from the cadavers during post mortem examination. Result: Total 114 sternum bones were studied out of which 24 were having congenital anomalies either in the body of sternum or in xiphoid process. No any abnormality is found in manubrium. Sternal foramen is found in 10 cases and it is the most common form of congenital anomaly of sternum. Other anomalies are xiphoid foramen in 7 cases, fissured 4th segment in 5 cases and bifid xiphoid is found in 2 cases. Misinterpretation of autopsy findings has been a major concern to forensic pathologists. This article documents the occurrence of relatively rare congenital anomalies which may be misleading and may result in serious erroneous conclusions, particularly when evaluating skeletonised human remains. Conclusion: Presence of these anomalies and their antemortem records in the form of previous x rays make important data for the identification of skeletonised remains.
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A study of the correlationship between the height of the person and the length of the sternum bone were made on 70 Thai male cadavers of aged range from 18 to 60 years old, autopsied during March to November 1995. Three stature-estimation formulae calculated for sternum bone (except xiphoid process), manubrium and body. It was found that the length of the sternum bone give the best result, but only 30.8% accurate. These regression-equation formulae could prove useful in identifying cases in the field of forensic medicine.