Citation

Hayakawa M, Makino Y, Yajima D, Inokuchi G, Motomura A, Chiba F, Torimitsu S, Ishii N, Saitoh H, Iwase H. Leg. Med. (Elsevier) 2014; 16(5): 300-302.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Japanese Society of Legal Medicine, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.05.007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A 56-year-old man was hit by a car while riding a bicycle, immediately brought to the hospital, and treated. Four days after the accident, he reported abdominal pain and vomiting in the night, and he died the next day. A forensic autopsy was performed, and almost of the entire small bowel had gangrenous swelling. The mesentery was twisted 180 with clockwise rotation along the vascular axis, and pre-autopsy computed tomography scan showed a whirl sign. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Language: en