Radiological study of fusion of epiphysis of lower end of humerus and lower end of femur and itsassociation with height and weight Singh Anju1, Singh Dinesh Kumar2, Singh Shivendra Vikram3 1Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki, Lucknow, U.P 2Associate. Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki, Lucknow, U.P 3M.B.B.S. M.D. Pathology, Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki, Lucknow, U.P Online published on 13 December, 2018. Abstract The bony age is determined from the study of growing ends of the long bones i.e. appearance and fusion of various epiphysis with diaphysis.. The actual bony age can't be determined in living, therefore the law enforcing agencies has to rely upon radiological estimation of bony age that too with many limitations and conditions. The appearance and ultimate union of epiphysis are influenced by various factors like heredity, race, caste, sex, nutrition, certain diseases, injury to epiphysis, heavy metal poisoning, metabolic and hormonal disorder etc. The present series of work was conducted at Forensic Medicine and Radiology Department of Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra to find out association of fusion of epiphysis of lower end of humerus and lower end of femur with height and weight. The study was based on 200 cases of males and females (10–20 years) of different school and colleges running in the Agra city. In all epiphysis except (lateral epicondyle with capitulum) fusion of epiphysis occurs similar irrespective of the weight of the subjects. In all epiphysis fusion occurs earlier in subjects having less than normal reference height. However the differences were found to be stastically insignificant (p >0.05) Top Keywords Bony age, Radiological examination, union. Top |