Orensic medical evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma for liver damage

Yu.I. Pigolkin, I.A. Dubrovina, V.N. Nikolenko, I.A. Dubrovin

Chair of Forensic Medicine of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov, Moscow, Russia

In the forensic literature provides an overview of the mechanisms and processes underlying the formation of liver injury in blunt abdominal trauma: processesof compression, tension and dislocation.

These processes are the result of local and general deformations of organ, which is the result of traumatic impact.

In blunt abdominal trauma traumatic impact conditions are stroke, compression and shaking of organ. Localization and severity of liver injury provide valuable information about the conditions causing blunt abdominal trauma. Search morphological equivalentsprocesses of compression, tension and dislocation in liver damage is important to solve forensic issues.

Keywords: blunt abdominal trauma, liver ruptures characteristic.

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