title: [Roentgen image of the hand as a principle for age determination in adolescents].
abstract: Determination of age can be necessary in cases of juvenile offenders. We studied the relation between the skeletal development of the hand and wrist and the age, using diagnostic methods of orthodontics. An evaluation of 1109 X-ray pictures of the hand and wrist of boys and girls with an age from 9-18 years showed that there is a stochastic correlation between age and certain stages of skeletal development. Skeletal development is influenced by sex and ethnological factors.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006132:Growth Plate / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Das Röntgenbild der Hand als eine Grundlage der Altersschätzung bei Jugendlichen.