Fetal age at death estimation on dry bone: Testing the applicability of equations developed on a radiographic sample

  1. Cristiana Carneiro 1
  2. Francisco Curate 2
  3. Inmaculada Alemán 3
  4. Miguel Botella 3
  5. Eugénia Cunha 2
  1. 1 Garcia de Orta Hospital. EPE. Almada. Portugal
  2. 2 Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology. Centre for Functional Ecology. Department of Life Sciences. University of Coimbra. Coimbra. Portugal
  3. 3 Laboratory of Anthropology. Department of Legal Medicine. Toxicology and Physical Anthropology. Medicine Faculty. University of Granada. Granada. Spain
Revista:
Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica

ISSN: 1853-6387 1514-7991

Año de publicación: 2019

Volumen: 21

Número: 2

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.24215/18536387E008 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

La escasez de colecciones osteológicas que incluyen fetos identificados impone la búsqueda de recursos no convencionales para investigar la variación anatómica fetal. En un trabajo anterior, desarrollamos ecuaciones para estimar la edad gestacional (EG) en el momento de la muerte mediante la medición de huesos largos fetales en radiografías. Este estudio tiene como objetivo demostrar la aplicabilidad de esas ecuaciones en huesos secos y evaluar su precisión y sesgo. Se empleó una muestra de 17 fetos de edad gestacional conocida en el momento de la muerte, perteneciente a la colección osteológica del Departamento de Medicina Legal, Toxicología y Antropología Física de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Granada (España). Los huesos examinados fueron el fémur, la tibia, el húmero y el radio. Los modelos propuestos exhiben una precisión alta y un sesgo bajo en la evaluación de la EG en el momento de la muerte en una muestra de huesos fetales secos. Las nuevas ecuaciones, especialmente las obtenidas mediante calibración clásica, son una herramienta valiosa para estimar la edad gestacional en el momento de la muerte, tanto en contextos forenses como arqueológicos.

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