Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Röntgenstrasse 23, 48149 Münster, Germany.
Int J Legal Med. 2009 Nov;123(6):489-94. doi: 10.1007/s00414-009-0367-2. Epub 2009 Aug 18.
As a collection of radiographic standards of the normal hand development with a homogenous degree of maturity of all skeletal elements, the digital atlas of skeletal maturity by Gilsanz and Ratib combines the possibilities of digital imaging with the principle of a conventional atlas method. The present paper analyses the forensic applicability of skeletal age assessment according to Gilsanz and Ratib to age estimation in criminal proceedings. For this, the hand X-rays of 180 children and adolescents aged 10-18 years old were examined retrospectively. For the entire age range, the minima and maxima, the mean values and standard deviations as well as the medians with upper and lower quartiles are specified by sex. For the legally relevant age groups from 14 to 18 years, there is a risk of overestimation of the chronological age of up to 7.2 months in females. The method of Gilsanz and Ratib is therefore only suitable to forensic age estimation in criminal proceedings to a limited extent.
作为一种具有所有骨骼元素成熟度均匀程度的正常手部发育的放射学标准的集合，Gilsanz 和 Ratib 的骨骼成熟度数字图谱将数字成像的可能性与传统图谱方法的原理相结合。本文分析了根据 Gilsanz 和 Ratib 进行骨骼年龄评估在刑事诉讼中进行年龄估计的法医学适用性。为此，回顾性地检查了 180 名 10-18 岁儿童和青少年的手部 X 光片。对于整个年龄范围，按性别指定最小值和最大值、平均值和标准差以及中位数和上下四分位数。对于 14 至 18 岁的法律相关年龄组，女性的实际年龄可能被高估多达 7.2 个月。因此，Gilsanz 和 Ratib 的方法在刑事诉讼中的法医学年龄估计中仅具有有限的适用性。
