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Title: CT evaluation of medial clavicular epiphysis as a method of bone age determination in adolescents and young adults
Authors: Ufuk, Furkan
Ağladıoğlu, Kadir
Karabulut, Nevzat
Keywords: adolescent
adult
bone age determination
child
clavicle
computed tomographic angiography
controlled study
female
human
lung
major clinical study
male
ossification
prediction
probability
staging
thorax
young adult
age
diagnostic imaging
epiphysis
procedures
retrospective study
x-ray computed tomography
Adolescent
Adult
Age Determination by Skeleton
Age Factors
Child
Clavicle
Epiphyses
Female
Humans
Male
Retrospective Studies
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Young Adult
Publisher: AVES
Abstract: PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the use of computed tomography (CT) staging of the medial clavicular epiphysis ossification in forensic bone age determination, and find a CT criterion to determine whether an individual is adult or not. METHODS Chest CT and pulmonary CT angiography exams of 354 patients between 10 and 30 years of age (mean, 21.4 years) were retrospectively evaluated for epiphyseal ossification phase of the bilateral medial clavicles (708 clavicles) and compared with the sex and chronologic age of the individuals. The ossification phase of the medial clavicular epiphyses was classified from stage I to stage V using a modified staging system. RESULTS Epiphyseal ossification center appeared from 11 to 21 years of age. Partial fusion occurred between 16 and 23 years of age. Complete fusion was first achieved at the ages of 18 and 19 years for male and female individuals, respectively. The probability of an individual being ?18 years old was 70.8% in stage III A and 100% in stages III B, IV, and V in females and males. CONCLUSION CT evaluation of the medial clavicular epiphysis is helpful in forensic age determination and stage III B can be used as a criterion to make the prediction that an individual is older than 18 years. © Turkish Society of Radiology 2016.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/9592
https://doi.org/10.5152/dir.2016.15355
ISSN: 1305-3825
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