A Study of Estimation of Stature from Per-Cutaneous Length of Clavicle among Maharashtrian Population

Introduction: Identification of an individual whether living or dead is one of the mostcrucial tasks in medico-legal practice. Determination of stature is quite easy whencomplete body is recovered, but it will become difficult task for forensic experts whenthere are only few body parts or fragments. Clavicle is one of the long bones of thebody. Many studies have been done in estimation of age and sex from clavicle but onlyfewer studies have been conducted in relation to estimation of stature from claviclefrom this population. Objective: To estimate the stature of individual from maximumlength of clavicle. Methods: Cross sectional analytical study was conducted inDepartment of Forensic Medicine in Medical College during October 2023 toNovember 2023. Study population included 181 medical students in the age group of22-25 years, from rural Government Medical College, Maharashtra. Results:Correlation co-efficient for both right and left clavicles in female for stature were 0.307and 0.301 respectively and for males, 0.372 and 0.362 respectively. The differencesobserved in height and length of clavicle between males and females were statisticallysignificant (p<0.05), mean values of length of both right and left clavicle and heightbeing higher in males than in females. It was observed that, there was no significantdifference between measured height and height estimated from length of clavicle byusing regression equation in both male and female participants. Conclusion: There wasa significant correlation between stature and length of clavicle in male and femalestudy participants. Thus, clavicle can be used for estimation of stature.