Determination of sex from the tibia of adult turkish cadavers

Acta Anatomica Nipponica

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 537-543

  Kinci, Yalçm ^a   Ozan, Hasan ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

discriminant function; morphometric analysis; sex determination; tibia; Turkish man

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747231859     PISSN: 00227722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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