Importância das radiografias de seio frontal para a identificação humana

Cuerpo esqueletizado identificado por análisis morfológico del seno frontal y características del material de osteosíntesis - relato de caso pericial

“…These should be used with caution to avoid misleading or inconsistent conclusions. In return, they become valuable in a morphologic, qualitative and quantitative assessment of the frontal sinus, bearing in mind that this expansive cavity is unique and does not change in adults (7)(8)(9)16,17) . In this case, the morphological similarity between AM and PM x-ray images of the frontal sinus, comparative procedure widely supported and described in the literature (7-9,16.17) , made the positive identification of the victim possible, paving the way for the criminal investigation to arrest and prosecute those involved in his death.…”

Forensic application of the frontal and maxillary sinuses: A literature review

“…Silva et al [18] 2008 Case Report 1 Radiograph Frontal sinus Human identification At work, it was possible to positively establish the identity of the skeletonized body as belonging to the missing victim.…”

“…Regarding DNA, although their techniques are accurate and propitiate reliable results, the method is time consuming and requires laboratory infrastructure, besides being impossible if the remains are badly degraded or exposed to environmental conditions [2,[6][7][8].…”

“…In cases where these traditional methods are unfeasible, there is the study of anthropometric characteristics, as a secondary method in human identification, and, this method is reliable and essential to guide the identification procedure [8,9] and still gains importance when combined with Forensic Dentistry [1,3,5,7,8,10,11], can avail of information able to set the identity [7,8,[12][13][14] from comparative analysis of anatomical variations [1,6,13,15].…”

“…The frontal sinus has become quite solidly in the literature as a safe method [1,4,8,12,16] for comparative radiographic studies to get the identification [1,2,4,8,12,14,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Regarding the use of the maxillary sinus, their characteristics Contents lists available at ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jofri Table 1 Papers about human identification and sex determination through the frontal and maxillary sinuses.…”