Reliability of the methods applied to assess age minority in living subjects around 18 years old: A survey on a Moroccan origin population

Forensic Science International

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-12

  Garamendi, P M ^a,c   Landa, M I ^a   Ballesteros, J ^b   Solano, M A ^a  

^a Basque Legal Medicine Institute   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c IVML   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age determination by skeleton; Age minority; Bone age; Dental age; Morocco

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BONE AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMIRJIAN METHOD; GREULICH AND PYLE METHOD; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MOLAR TOOTH; MOROCCO; NORMAL HUMAN; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; WRIST; X RAY;

EID: 25144493237     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.08.018     Document Type: Article

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