Assessment of intra- and intercostal variation in rib histomorphometry: Its impact on evidentiary examination

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-276

  Crowder, Christian ^a   Rosella, Laura ^b  

^a Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daubert; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Histology; Histomorphometry; Mohan; Osteon population density

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HAVERSIAN SYSTEM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RIBS;

EID: 33847169068     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00388.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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