Skull Fracture with Brain Expulsion in a One-Level Jumping-Fall
| Autor: | Pierre Guyomarc’h, Anny Sauvageau, Amir Chaltchi, Maude Campagna-Vaillancourt |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale, Edifice Wilfrid-Derome, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Huchet, Jean-Bernard |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty blunt force trauma fall [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology Poison control Autopsy Brain damage medicine.disease_cause Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Jumping autopsy Skull fracture Stairs skull fracture Genetics Medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Paranoid Behavior 030222 orthopedics Head First Scalp Skull Fractures business.industry musculoskeletal neural and ocular physiology Brain Forensic Medicine medicine.disease Surgery [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology Skull medicine.anatomical_structure Psychotic Disorders Brain Injuries brain trauma pathology Forensic science medicine.symptom business human activities |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forensic Sciences Journal of Forensic Sciences, Wiley, 2009, 54 (6), pp.1463-1465 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1198 |
| Popis: | International audience; Here presented is the case of a one-level jumping-fall with extensive skull fractures and brain expulsion. The body was found on the basement floor at the foot of the stairs. At the autopsy, the skull was extensively fractured, with about half of the brain expulsed several feet away from the body. The cause of death was established as a craniocerebral trauma with brain expulsion. The circumstances and manner of death were still unclear at that time. A low fall seemed very unlikely considering the severity of the skull and brain damage. The police investigation clearly revealed that the man, in a paranoid psychotic state, attacked his wife with a knife and then was witnessed by his children to have hit his head several times with a hammer. Afterwards, they saw him running to the top of the basement stairs and jumping to the bottom of the stairs head first. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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