Kanthem Ranjith Kumar, Guttikonda Venkateswara Rao, Yeluri Sivaranjani, Kumari Geetha
Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Mamata Dental College and Hospital, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
J Forensic Dent Sci. 2015 May-Aug;7(2):163-7. doi: 10.4103/0975-1475.154595.
Individual identification is a subtle concept and often one of the most important priorities in mass disasters, road accidents, air crashes, fires, and even in the investigation of criminal cases. Matching specific features detected on the cadaver with data recorded during the life of an individual is an important aspect in forensics, and can be performed by fingerprint analysis, deoxyribonucleic acid matching, anthropological methods, radiological methods and other techniques which can facilitate age and sex identification. Sinus radiography is one such method that has been used for determination of the sex of an individual. Hence, an attempt is being made to use the different dimensions of the maxillary sinus in the determination of sex using coronal and axial sections of plain computed tomography (CT) scan.
A total of 30 patients including 17 male and 13 female, visiting the Outpatient Department of the Mamata General Hospital were included as the study subjects. The dimensions of right and left maxillary sinuses of 30 subjects from plain CT were measured using SYNGO software and statistical analysis was done.
Sex determination using height, length, width, and volume of the maxillary sinus on both sides showed statistically significant results with a higher percentage of sexual dimorphism in the case of volume.
Volume of the right maxillary sinus can be used as accurate diagnostic parameter for sex determination.
个体识别是一个微妙的概念，在大规模灾难、道路交通事故、空难、火灾甚至刑事案件调查中，它往往是最重要的优先事项之一。将尸体上检测到的特定特征与个体生前记录的数据进行匹配是法医学的一个重要方面，可以通过指纹分析、脱氧核糖核酸匹配、人类学方法、放射学方法以及其他有助于年龄和性别识别的技术来实现。鼻窦造影就是用于确定个体性别的一种方法。因此，人们正在尝试利用上颌窦在普通计算机断层扫描（CT）的冠状面和轴位面上的不同维度来确定性别。
共纳入30名患者，其中男性17名，女性13名，均来自马马塔综合医院门诊部，作为研究对象。使用SYNGO软件测量30名受试者普通CT扫描图像上左右上颌窦的维度，并进行统计分析。
利用双侧上颌窦的高度、长度、宽度和体积进行性别判定，结果具有统计学意义，其中体积方面的性别二态性百分比更高。
右侧上颌窦的体积可作为准确的性别判定诊断参数。
