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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152017000200049</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Determinación forense de la edad en individuos vivos]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Jiménez Porras]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pamela]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Quirós Abarca]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Laura]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Poder Judicial  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Poder Judicial  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica.</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>34</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>49</fpage>
<lpage>55</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000200049&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000200049&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000200049&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Este artículo es una revisión bibliográfica, sobre la determinación de la edad en individuos vivos, desconocidos e indocumentados, en los que resulta fundamental debido a un proceso legal determinar si son mayores de edad. La estimación de la edad, es un estudio relativamente joven de la medicina forense, que tomó importancia en los años noventa, debido a los movimientos migratorios.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Summary This is a bibliographical review, on the determination of the age in alive, unknown and undocumented individuals, in which it is fundamental to determine if they are of age. The estimation of the approximate age, is a relatively young study of the forensic medicine, that took importance in the nineties, due to the migratory movements.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Estimación de la edad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Estado de osificación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Extremidad esternal de la clavícula]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Tomografía computarizada (TC), Resonancia magnética]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Age estimation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Ossification status]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Medial clavicular epiphysis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sternal end of the clavicle]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Identification]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Computed tomography]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Magnetic resonance]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
</article-meta>
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