Estatura : dado fundamental em antropologia forense

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000

RESUMO

It is well-known that there are no Brazilian standards for stature estimates. While the national researches on Forensic Anthropology about sex, age and weight progressed, the research on stature did not. Based on the idea that the stature is an essential piece of information in Forensic Anthropology we also know that in Brazil, in the human bone investigation the tables and regression formulas used are elaborated abroad, with defined racial standards in which, besides the sex, the racial issue is emphasized. Therefore, they do not meet the racial mixture present in Brazil. In this present research, a series of studies about statures was started in search of a national standard. A sample of 216 corpses, 116 mal e and 100 female, was taken. We chose to work with corpses, due to fact that it was possible to establish the stature previously and thus, to make the correlation with the measurements of long bones and therefore, with a bigger possibility of establishing the relation long bones and stature. The bones measured were the humarus, the radius, femur and tibia because they play an effective part in the stature, from the anatomic point of view. The sample was submitted to statistical analysis through linear correlation calculation, linear regression and the establishment of confidence intervals, to estimate the statures. Thus, regression formulas were obtained, with national standards which property applied will help the Brazilian expert in the estimate whenever necessary. Finnaly, we observed that deeper studies on variables of this very theme such as biotypes prove to be necessary

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odontologia legal

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