Citation

Rygol K, Kobek M, Chowaniec C. Arch. Med. Sadowej Kryminol. 2003; 53(1): 79-83.

Vernacular Title

Bledna ocena wynikow badan radiologicznych jako przyczyna nieprawidlowej

Affiliation

Katedry Medycyny Sadowej Slaskiej AM w Katowicach.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Polish Forensic Medicine Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14669554

Abstract

In the paper the authors presented three cases relating to erroneous appraisal of radiograms improperly classifying body injuries. In all these cases medico-legal opinions were given by experts appointed by the court but not at forensic medicine. In one case, the expert regarded only the result of the fibula capitulum fracture radiogram but he disregarded previous and further X-ray films. In another case, cerebral injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage were misrecognized by head computer tomography (HCT) as a result of unsuitable head position. In the last case, on the basis of routine radiograms a fracture of vertebra C2 was firstly misdiagnosed and verified as an anatomical anomaly in the structure of this vertebra. In these three cases conclusive medico-legal opinions changing the legal classification of the injuries experienced were provided by specialist scientific institutions of the Silesian School of Medicine in Katowice.

Language: pl