Suicidal knife wound to the heart: challenges in reconstructing wound channels with post mortem CT and CT-angiography.
Leg Med (Tokyo)
; 13(2): 91-4, 2011 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-21185765
ABSTRACT
We present a case of an individual who stabbed himself through the heart with a large knife. Post mortem computed tomography (CT) and CT-angiography were used to assess the stab channel and to reconstruct the sequence of events. After penetrating injuries to the chest, both the intra-thoracic organs and the injury causing instrument may shift (e.g. from pnemothorax) and render forensic reconstructions more challenging. This case report illustrates the potentials and the pitfalls of CT for the reconstruction of penetrating injures to the chest.
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Suicídio
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Ferimentos Perfurantes
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Traumatismos Cardíacos
Limite:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2011
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Article