Citation

Zinka B, Kunz S, Fieseler S. Rechtsmedizin 2011; 21(5): 475-478.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00194-011-0769-6

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The differentiation between accidental and self-inflicted injuries is one of the typical challenges for forensic pathologists. This article reports the case of a 38-year-old man who was found severely injured at his workplace with a penetrating injury of the abdomen and approximately 1.2 m of the small intestines were eviscerated. Because of the extraordinary and severe injury it was hard for the physicians to believe that such an injury could be self-inflicted, but based on classical wound morphology and the lack of indications for a criminal offence the diagnosis of self-inflicted injury could be confirmed. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

Language: de

Keywords

crime; adult; human; male; case report; suicide attempt; disease severity; forensic pathology; article; automutilation; penetrating trauma; occupational accident; abdominal injury; Self-mutilation; small intestine; morphology; evisceration; Evisceration; Interdisciplinary communication; Intestine, small; Wounds, penetrating