Raju Chowdhury1, Arunima Datta2, Md. Monir Hossain3, Sonia Sultana4
A. S. M. Mashrurul Haque5, Anup Kumar Biswas6, Muhammad Rabiul Alam7
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, North East Medical College, Sylhet.
2. Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Bangabandhu Medical College. Sunamgonj
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Eastern Medical College, Cumilla.
4. Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Chattogram International Medical College, Chattogram
5. Associate (CC) Professor, Department of Anatomy, North East Medical College, Sylhet.
6. Clinical Embryologist Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka.
7. Assistant Professor BCG Trust Medical College. Chattogram.
Abstract
Estimation of the age of an individual from the appearance and the fusion of the ossification centers is considered as a reasonable well accepted method in the field of medical and legal professions. Age estimation is essential during employment, marriage, fixation of criminal responsibility, judicial punishment, exercise of adult franchise and many other purposes, Bony age can be determined by the observation of ossification centers of long bones through the appearance and fusion of epiphysis with diaphysis. The challenges during determination of bony age are varying from place to place depending on geographic terrain, climatic, dietetic, hereditary, disease and other factor. So this study aimed to look out the status of union of ossification centers at the lower end of humerus for estimation of age among boys and girls in Chattogram city and estimate the age of a person radiologically by fusion of ossification centers at lower end of humerus. We also get idea about the age of fusion of ossification centers at lower end of humerus in Chattogram city with those reported from other country and evaluate sex related variation. In our study we found the fusion of the ossification centers occur 2-3 years earlier in girls than compared to the fusion in boys.
Key Words: Bone, Diaphysis. Epiphysis, Humerus, Ossification, Union.