Identification of human sex from hyoid bone using thoracic computed tomography (CT) Images (a cross-sectional study) .

Abstract

Background: The sex determination of the individual plays a vital role in establishing the remains of anthropologists. The characterization of the hyoid bone is made possible by analyzing sexually dimorphic features, enabling it to occasionally be utilized in the sex determination part of establishing the biological profile parameters in skeletal remains. The hyoid bone is the crucial bone in the forensic investigation of neck trauma (as strangulation). This study aims to evaluate the application of the hyoid bone metric measurements and hyoid bone density to identify sex in the Egyptian population using two-dimensional computed tomography (CT) images methodology. Patients and methods: This is a cross-sectional study done on thoracic Computed Tomography (CT) of 103 general Egyptian populations constituting 54 males and 49 females. The statistics against the following parameters were noted from each patient: Bone density in Hounsfield unite by CT (HU), the distance between bilateral greater horns (GH), the distance between bilateral lesser horns (LH), distance from the most anterior end of the hyoid arch to great horns (AP).