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Identification of skull from its suture pattern.

P Chandra Sekharan
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The examination of 320 skulls collected at random revealed that the ectocranial suture patterns in them are highly individualistic and that no two skulls can ever have an identical pattern. The possibility of these suture patterns being recorded incidentally in routine diagnostic skull radiographs was verified by examining the skull skiagrams preserved in radiology departments. A positive method of identification of the skull is suggested by the comparison of radiographic with visible skull suture pattern.

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P Chandra Sekharan. 1985. Identification of skull from its suture pattern.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0379-0738(85)90156-2

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