Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal University, India.
Forensic Sci Int. 2013 Sep 10;231(1-3):410.e1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.04.031. Epub 2013 May 18.
Cranial sutures give a wide estimate of age and asymmetric closure of sutures is likely to further complicate the process of age estimation from the closure of cranial sutures. Literature on the estimation of age from squamous suture is limited. A rare case of asymmetric closure of squamous suture is reported along with a review of literature. The reported case highlights on the fact that asymmetric closure of the sutures may cause inaccuracies in age estimation when only one half of the skull is available for forensic examination. Asymmetric closure of sutures may also lead to erroneous opinion on the number of individuals in cases when fragments of skull are brought for medicolegal investigation.
颅骨缝线提供了年龄的大致估计，而缝线的不对称闭合可能会使通过颅骨缝线闭合来估计年龄的过程更加复杂。关于从鳞缝估计年龄的文献有限。本文报告了一例罕见的鳞缝不对称闭合病例，并对文献进行了回顾。该报告病例突出了一个事实，即当只有一半颅骨可供法医检查时，缝线的不对称闭合可能会导致年龄估计不准确。缝线的不对称闭合也可能导致在为法医学调查带来颅骨碎片的情况下，对个体数量的错误判断。
