Citation

Purdue B, Fernando GC. Forensic Sci. Int. 1989; 42(1-2): 125-130.

Affiliation

University Department of Forensic Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Dundee, Scotland, U.K.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2759517

Abstract

In the course of a scuffle, a youth of 18 years was struck a single blow across the chest with a golf club. He collapsed dead on the spot. At autopsy, a precisely located and highly distinctive patterned imprint abrasion of the precordial region was revealed providing an excellent match with the weapon. The heart showed multiple internal ruptures and there was a laceration of the lingula of the left lung. Injury to the chest wall was confined to the soft tissues, the rib cage and sternum being intact. We postulate a novel mechanism to explain the cardiac rupture.

Language: en