Retrospective analysis of profile of medico-legal age estimation cases brought to Tertiary Care Hospital & Medical College of rural Haryana

Tyagi, Ashish and Chawla, Hitesh (2020) Retrospective analysis of profile of medico-legal age estimation cases brought to Tertiary Care Hospital & Medical College of rural Haryana. Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 37 (1). pp. 83-86. ISSN 0971-1929

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Abstract

Road traffic accidents shares major burden of magnitude of mortality in both developing and developed countries. The humans became the victim of damages of his own invention by means of road traffic accidents. Most of the time, pattern of skeletal injuries to the surrounding soft tissues and/ or vital organs, like the skull fracture causing injury to the brain, fracture of ribs piercing the heart or lung, fracture of long bones leading to hemorrhage due to rupture of large vessels with other injuries would help in the reconstruction of road traffic accident by two-wheeler. The current study is under taken to analyze the pattern of rib cage fractures due to two wheeler accidents with respect to site, situation, number, size, severity and extent which helps in reconstruction of manner and also cause of death. This study is an attempt to help the law enforcement authorities and policy makers regarding road safety measures and need for trauma care system even at the remote places. © 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics > Toxicology
Divisions: Medicine > Vinayaka Mission's Medical College and Hospital, Karaikal > Forensic Medicine
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Last Modified: 04 Dec 2025 11:50
URI: https://vmuir.mosys.org/id/eprint/3522

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