Legal Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 260-266 , November 2009

Stature estimation formulae from radiographically determined limb bone length in a modern Japanese population

  • Iwao Hasegawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan
    • ,
  • Kazuhiro Uenishi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Physiological Nutrition, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama 350-0288, Japan
    • ,
  • Tatsushige Fukunaga

      Affiliations

    • Tokyo Medical Examiner’s Office, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan
    • ,
  • Ryousuke Kimura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan
    • ,
  • Motoki Osawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Shimokasuya 143, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. Tel.: +81 463 93 1121; fax: +81 463 92 0284.

Received 24 July 2008 ,Revised 12 June 2009 ,Accepted 16 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.07.004

Legal Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 260-266 , November 2009

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