Positive personal identity of skeletonized remains using abdominal and pelvic radiographs

J Forensic Sci. 1992 Jan;37(1):332-6.

Abstract

Premortem and postmortem radiographs of the chest and abdomen are often available for comparison and provide a basis for making or rejecting an identification. The case reported here exemplifies the way that individualizing features, such as contours of bony elements, skeletal anomalies, and radiodensities and radiolucencies, are used in establishing personal identity.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Congenital Abnormalities / diagnostic imaging
  • Forensic Medicine / methods*
  • Humans
  • Ilium / abnormalities
  • Ilium / diagnostic imaging
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / abnormalities
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Pelvic Bones / diagnostic imaging*
  • Postmortem Changes*
  • Radiography, Abdominal*
  • Spine / diagnostic imaging*