The forensic importance of frontal sinus radiographs

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-23

  da Silva, Rhonan Ferreira ^a,b   Prado, Felippe Bevilacqua ^a   Caputo, Isamara Geandra Cavalcanti ^a   Devito, Karina Lopes ^a   Botelho, Tessa de Luscena ^b   Júnior, Eduardo Daruge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forensic anthropology; Frontal sinus; Radiography; Victim identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VICTIM;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; EXHUMATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE;

EID: 56949090705     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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