[Radiographic examination of skeletalized remains of an abandoned infant: a case report with special reference to odontological findings].
A homeless couple confessed that they had buried their baby, who died at the age of three months, in the graveyard two years earlier. The recovered infantile remains had been already completely skeletonized and dismembered. However, the maxilla and mandibula of the average matured infants, the age of the body was estimated to be 1 to 2.5 months old on the basis of the degree of calcification of deciduous teeth.
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Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka 545-8585, Japan.
Sakoda
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Zhu
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Ishida
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Quan
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Kano
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Fujita
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Maeda
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D000366:Age Determination by Teeth; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005553:Forensic Dentistry; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*