Anatomical variability of the frontal sinuses and their application in forensic identification

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-19

  Nambiar, Phrabhakaran ^a   Naidu, Murali D K ^a   Subramaniam, Krishnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Forensic identification; Frontal sinus; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY;

FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0032960580     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2353(1999)12:1<16::AID-CA3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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