Abstract：
:A frequent request of a prosecutor referring to forensic autopsy is to determine the mechanism of an injury and to identify the weapons used to cause those injuries. This task could be problematic in many ways, including changes in the primary injury caused by medical intervention and the process of healing. To accomplish this task, the forensic pathologist has to gather all possible information during the post-mortem examination. The more data is collected, the easier it is to obtain an accurate answer to the prosecutor's question. The authors present a case of head injuries that the victim sustained under unknown circumstances. The patient underwent neurosurgical treatment which resulted in alteration of the bone fracture pattern. The only way to evaluate this injury was to analyze antemortem clinical data, especially CT scans, with virtual 3D reconstruction of the fractured skull. A physical model of a part of the broken skull was created with the use of 3D printing. These advanced techniques, applied for the first time in Poland for forensic purposes, allowed investigators to extract enough data to develop a hypothesis about the mechanism of injury and the weapon most likely used.
journal_name
Forensic Sci Intjournal_title
Forensic science internationalauthors
Woźniak K,Rzepecka-Woźniak E,Moskała A,Pohl J,Latacz K,Dybała Bdoi
10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.06.012subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-10-10 00:00:00pages
e29-32issue
1-3eissn
0379-0738issn
1872-6283pii
S0379-0738(12)00297-6journal_volume
222pub_type
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