Bone Age Estimate based on the Epiphyseal Scar of the Knee Soumah Mohamed Maniboliot1,*, Sougueh Kafia Hassan1, Ndiaye Mor1 1Forensic Medicine and Occupational Health Service, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal *Corresponding author: Pr Mohamed Maniboliot Soumah PoBox 7080, Dakar, Senegal, Phone: (221) 776348672 mohamed.soumah@ucad.edu.sn, mmsoumah@gmail.com
Online published on 17 July, 2019. Abstract The determination of age is an important issue in forensic anthropology. The main purpose is to verify the applicability of a method of determining the biological age of the living being in our area of practice. This is a retrospective study on a consecutive series of archives, carried out at the emergency services at the General Hospital of Grand-Yoff (HOGGY) in Dakar. The study looked at a total of 442 subjects with a majority of males at 71, 72%. The interpretation by Obs 1 of the x-rays of the 442 subjects during the first week, showed that in 71% of cases, that is in 314 a.p x-rays of the knee, the epiphyseal scar of the distal femur was not visible. There was no difference between the two-interpretation series and a good agreement according to the Fleiss classification. There was no statistically significant difference between the proportion of the presence of epiphyseal scar in the interpretation by observer 1 and the one by observer 2. The result of our study shows that the scar remains up until at least the 6th life decade and consequently, the persistence of an epiphyseal scar on an AP x-ray is not an indicator of a recent knee fusion and may not be correlated to the biological age. Top Keywords Age estimation, knee, scar, anthropology, femur. Top |