title: Positive personal identity of skeletonized remains using abdominal and pelvic radiographs.
abstract: Premortem and postmortem radiographs of the chest and abdomen are often available for comparison and provide a basis for making or rejecting an identification. The case reported here exemplifies the way that individualizing features, such as contours of bony elements, skeletal anomalies, and radiodensities and radiolucencies, are used in establishing personal identity.
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Owsley
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*