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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
In traffic accidents with pedestrians, cyclists or motorcyclists, patterned impact injuries as well as marks on clothes can be matched to the injury-causing vehicle structure in order to reconstruct the accident and identify the vehicle which has hit the person. Therefore, the differentiation of the primary impact injuries from other injuries is of great importance. Impact injuries can be identified on the external injuries of the skin, the injured subcutaneous and fat tissue, as well as the fractured bones. Another sign of impact is a bone bruise. The bone bruise, or occult bone lesion, means a bleeding in the subcortical bone marrow, which is presumed to be the result of micro-fractures of the medullar trabeculae. The aim of this study was to prove that bleeding in the subcortical bone marrow of the deceased can be detected using the postmortem noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging. This is demonstrated in five accident cases, four involving pedestrians and one a cyclist, where bone bruises were detected in different bones as a sign of impact occurring in the same location as the external and soft tissue impact injuries.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1437-1596
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
123
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
221-6
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Accidents, Traffic, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Arm Injuries, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Autopsy, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Bone Marrow, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Bone and Bones, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Child, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Computer Simulation, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Contusions, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Fractures, Closed, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Hemorrhage, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Imaging, Three-Dimensional, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Leg Injuries, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19034476-Tomography, Spiral Computed
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Virtopsy -- noninvasive detection of occult bone lesions in postmortem MRI: additional information for traffic accident reconstruction.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. ursula.buck@irm.unibe.ch
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article