Is the assessment of bone age by the Greulich-Pyle method reliable at forensic age estimation for Turkish children?

Forensic Science International

Volumn 173, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 146-153

  Büken, Bora ^a   Şafak, Alp Alper ^a   Yazici, Burhan ^a   Büken, Erhan ^b   Mayda, Atilla Senih ^a  

^a DUZCE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Bone age; G P method; Pubic hair stage; Skeletal maturation; Turkish children

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL MATURATION; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 35348928616     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.02.023     Document Type: Article

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