A multitrauma: diagnostic capabilities of computer tomography in forensic medical practice

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For the last thirty years, many scientific publications have been devoted to diagnostic capabilities of postmortem computer tomography (CT). Nevertheless, up to the present day, the expediency of the substitution of a traditional postmortem dissection with a postmortem CT is still not proved. Foreign countries develop methods improving visualization in case of postmortem CT, study the correlation between the time of death and artefacts encountered in the further CT of cadavers. The authors have performed a comparative analysis of the results of intravitam X-ray examinations and data of postmortem dissections basing on the data of the professional literature and authors’ own research. Diagnostic capabilities of CT in case of multitrauma have been determined

Keywords:

computer tomography

multitrauma

postmortem computer tomography

Authors:

Kil'diushov E.M.

Kafedra sudebnoĭ meditsiny lechebnogo fakul'teta Rossiĭskogo natsional'nogo issledovatel'skogo meditsinskogo universiteta im. N.I. Pirogova

Egorova E.V.

Novosibirsk branch of S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, 10 Kolkhidskaya St., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630096

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