title: The use of maxillary sinus dimensions in gender determination: a thin-slice multidetector computed tomography assisted morphometric study.
abstract: Gender determination is an important step in identification. For gender determination, anthropometric evaluation is one of the main forensic evaluations. In the present study, morphometric analysis of maxillary sinuses was performed to determine gender. For morphometric analysis, coronal and axial paranasal sinus computed tomography (CT) scan with 1-mm slice thickness was used. For this study, 140 subjects (70 women and 70 men) were enrolled (age ranged between 18 and 63). The size of each subject's maxillary sinuses was measured in anteroposterior, transverse, cephalocaudal, and volume directions. In each measurement, the size of the maxillary sinus is significantly small in female gender (P < 0.001). When discrimination analysis was performed, the accuracy rate was detected as 80% for women and 74.3% for men with an overall rate of 77.15%. With the use of 1-mm slice thickness CT, morphometric analysis of maxillary sinuses will be helpful for gender determination.
authors.affiliation: From the *Departments of Forensic Medicine, †Radiology, and ‡Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul; and §Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oguzhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ekizoglu
authors.forename: Ercan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Inci
authors.forename: Elif
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hocaoglu
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sayin
authors.forename: Fatma Tulin
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Kayhan
authors.forename: Ismail Ozgur
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Can
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D010256:Paranasal Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012372:ROC Curve; D054881:Sex Determination by Skeleton / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult