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The effects of gender and age on forensic personal identification from frontal sinus in a Turkish population

Ertugrul Tatlisumak, Mahmut Asirdizer, Aydin Bora, Yavuz Hekimoglu, Yasin Etli, Orhan Gumus and Siddik Keskin
Saudi Medical Journal January 2017, 38 (1) 41-47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.1.16218
Ertugrul Tatlisumak
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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Mahmut Asirdizer
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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Aydin Bora
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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Yavuz Hekimoglu
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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Yasin Etli
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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Orhan Gumus
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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Siddik Keskin
From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
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vol. 38 no. 1 41-47
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.1.16218
PubMed 
28042629

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 10, 2016
  • Accepted October 13, 2016
  • Published online January 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ertugrul Tatlisumak, MD⇑,
  2. Mahmut Asirdizer, MD,
  3. Aydin Bora, MD,
  4. Yavuz Hekimoglu, MD,
  5. Yasin Etli, MD,
  6. Orhan Gumus, MD and
  7. Siddik Keskin, MD
  1. From the Department of Anatomy (Tatlisumak), Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, and the Department of Forensic Medicine (Asirdizer, Hekimoglu, Etli, Gumus), Department of Radiology (Bora), Department of Biostatistics (Keskin), Yuzunca Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ertugrul Tatlisumak, Department of Anatomy, Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey. E-mail: ertugrul.tatlisumak{at}gmail.com ORCID : http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8083-048X
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