Identification and differential diagnosis of perimortem blunt force trauma in tubular long bones

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 221-229

  Moraitis, Konstantinos ^a   Spiliopoulou, Chara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blunt force trauma; Differential diagnosis; Forensic anthropology; Fracture morphology; Perimortem skeletal injuries; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947246592     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/FSMP:2:4:221     Document Type: Review

References (69)

1. Sauer NJ. The timing of injuries and manner of death: distinguishing among antemortem, perimortem and postmortem trauma. In: Reichs KJ, ed. Forensic Osteology:Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1998, pp. 321-332.
2. Galloway A, Symes SA, Haglund WD, et al. The role of forensic anthropology in trauma analysis. In: Galloway A, ed. Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1999, pp. 5-31.
3. Mann RW, Murphy ST. Regional Atlas of Bone Disease: A Guide to Pathologic and Normal Variation to the Human Skeleton. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1990.
4. Oehmichen M. Vitality and time course of wounds. Forensic Sci Int 2004;144:221-231.
5. Ubelaker DH, Adams BJ. Differentiation of perimortem and postmortem trauma using taphonomic indicators. J Forensic Sci 1995;40(3):509-512.
6. Di Maio DJ, Di Maio VJM. Forensic Pathology. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1993.
7. Berryman HE, Symes SA. Recognizing gunshot and blunt cranial trauma through fracture interpretation. In: Reichs KJ, ed. Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1998, pp. 333-352.
8. Smith OC, Pope EJ, Symes SA. Look until you see: identification of trauma in skeletal material. In: Steadman DW, ed. Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003, pp.138-154.
9. Smith OC, Peters CE. Biomechanics and the bone. In: Symes SA, ed. Bones: Bullets, Burns, Bludgeons, Blunderers and Why. Bone Trauma Workshop presented at the 48th annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February 1996, Nashville, TN.
10. Chao EYS,Aro HT. Biomechanics of fracture fixation. In: Mow VC, Hayes WC, eds. Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics. New York: Raven Press, 1991, pp. 293-328.
11. McCarthy EF, Frassica FJ. Pathology of Bone and Joint Disorders with Clinical and Radiographic Correlation. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1998.
12. Volz RG. Basic biomechanics. In: Resnick D, ed. Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Disorders, 3rd ed., Vol. 2. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1995, pp. 791-803.
13. Galloway A. The biomechanics of fracture production. In: Galloway A, ed. Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1999, pp. 35-62.
14. Pierce MC, Bertocci GE, Vogeley E, et al. Evaluating long bone fractures in children: a biomechanical approach with illustrative cases. Child Abuse Negl 2004;28:505-524.
15. Stevens A, Lowe J. Pathology. London: Mosby, 1995.
16. Koval K.J, Zuckerman JD. Handbook of Fractures, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
17. Ortner DJ, Putschar WGJ. Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.
18. Adams JC, Hamblen DL. Outline of Fractures Including Joint Injuries, 11th ed. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
19. Byers SN. Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook, 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, 2005.
20. Sauer NJ. Manner of death: skeletal evidence of blunt and sharp instrument wounds. In: Rathbun TA, Buikstra JE, eds. Human Identification: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1984, pp. 177-184.
21. Aufderheide AC, Rodríguez-Martín C. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
22. Buikstra JE, Ubelaker DH. Standards for Data Collection From Human Skeletal Remains. Fayetteville: Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series No. 44, 1994.
23. Klotzbach H, Delling G, Richter E, et al. Post-mortem diagnosis and age estimation of infants' fractures. Int J Legal Med 2003;117:82-89.
24. Islam O, Soboleski D, Symons S, et al. Development and duration of radiographic signs of bone healing in children. AJR 2000;175:75-78.
25. Lovell NC. Trauma analysis in paleopathology. Yearb Phys Anthropol 1997;40:139-170.
26. Walker PL, Cook DC, Lambert PM. Skeletal evidence for child abuse: a physical anthropological perspective. J Forensic Sci 1997;42(2):196-207.
27. Prosser I, Maguire S, Harrison SK, et al. How old is this fracture? Radiologic dating of fractures in children: a systematic review. AJR 2005;184:1282-1286.
28. Resnick D, Goergen TG, Pathria MN. Physical injury. In: Resnick D, ed. Bone and Joint Imaging, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1996, pp. 717-818.
29. Merbs CF. Trauma. In: Işcan MY, Kennedy KAR, eds. Reconstruction of Life From the Skeleton. New York: Liss, 1989, pp. 161-189.
30. Herrmann NP, Bennett JL. The differentiation of traumatic and heat-related fractures in burned bone. J Forensic Sci 1999;44(3):461-469.
31. Raekallio J. Timing of the wound. In: Tedeschi CG, Eckert WG, Tedeschi LG, eds. Forensic Medicine: A Study in Trauma and Environmental Hazards, Vol. 1. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1977, pp. 22-28.
32. Fisher JW Jr. Bone surface modifications in zooarchaeology. J Archaeol Method Th 1995;2(1):7-68.
33. White TD. Human Osteology, 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000.
34. Sorg MH, Haglund WD. Advancing forensic taphonomy: purpose, theory, and process. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002, pp. 3-29.
35. Villa P, Mahieu E. Breakage patterns of human long bones. J Hum Evol 1991;21:27-48.
36. Walker PL. A bioarchaeological perspective on the history of violence. Ann Rev Anthropol 2001;30:573-596.
37. Quatrehomme G, Işcan MY. Postmortem skeletal lesions. Forensic Sci Int 1997;89:155-165.
38. Marshall LG. Bone modification and "the laws of burial." In: Bonnichsen R, Sorg M, eds. Bone Modification. Orono, ME: Center for the Study of the First Americans, 1989, pp. 7-24.
39. White TD. Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MT UMR-2346. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
40. Hurlbut SA. The taphonomy of cannibalism: a review of anthropogenic bone modification in the American southwest. Int J Osteoarchaeol 2000;10:4-26.
41. Mann RW, Owsley DW. Human osteology: key to the sequence of events in a postmortem shooting. J Forensic Sci 1992;37(5):1386-1392.
42. Maples W. Trauma analysis by the forensic anthropologist. In: Reichs K, ed. Forensic Osteology. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1986, pp. 218-228.
43. Haglund WD. Recent mass graves, an introduction. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002, pp. 243-261.
44. Rhine S, Dawson JE. Estimation of time since death in the southwestern United States. In: Reichs KJ, ed. Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1998, pp. 145-159.
45. Ubelaker DH. Taphonomic applications in forensic anthropology. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997, pp. 77-90.
46. Nawrocki SP. Taphonomic processes in historic cemeteries. In: Grauer AN, ed. Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1995, pp. 49-66.
47. Mays S. The Archaeology of Human Bones. London: Routledge, 1998.
48. Glencross B, Stuart-Macadam P. Childhood trauma in the archaeological record. Int J Osteoarchaeol 2000;10:198-209.
49. Wells C. Pseudopathology. In: Brothwell D, Sandison AT, eds. Diseases in Antiquity. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1967, pp. 5-19.
50. Brain CK. The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
51. Behrensmeyer AK. Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering. Paleobiology 1978;4:150-162.
52. Tappen M. Bone weathering in the tropical rain forest. J Archaeol Sci 1994;21:667-673.
53. Ubelaker DH. Human Skeletal Remains: Excavation, Analysis, Interpretation. Washington DC: Taraxacum, 1989.
54. Haglund WD, Sorg MH. Human remains in water environments. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002, pp. 201-218.
55. Nawrocki SP, Pless JE, Hawley DA, et al. Fluvial transport of human crania. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1997, pp. 529-552.
56. Bohnert M, Rost T, Pollak S. The degree of destruction of human bodies in relation to the duration of the fire. Forensic Sci Int 1998;95:11-21.
57. Knight B. Forensic Pathology, 2nd ed. London: Arnold, 1996.
58. Willey P, Heilman A. Estimating time since death using plant roots and stems. J Forensic Sci 1987;32(5):1264-1270.
59. Saul JM, Saul FP. Forensics, archaeology, and taphonomy: the symbiotic relationship. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002, pp. 71-97.
60. Ubelaker DH. Skeletons testify: anthropology in forensic science AAPA luncheon address, April 12, 1996. Yearb Phys Anthropol 1996;39:229-244.
61. Henderson J. Factors determining the state of preservation of human remains. In: Boddington A, Garland AN, Janaway RC, eds. Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Approaches to Archaeology and Forensic Science. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, pp. 43-54.
62. Haglund WD. Dog and coyotes: postmortem involvement with human remains. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997, pp. 367-381.
63. Shipman P. Life History of a Fossil: An Introduction to Taphonomy and Paleoecology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
64. Rothschild MA, Schneider V. On the temporal onset of postmortem animal scavenging: "motivation" of the animal. Forensic Sci Int 1997;89:57-64.
65. Asamura H, Takayanagi K, Ota M, et al. Unusual characteristic patterns of postmortem injuries. J Forensic Sci 2004;49(3):1-3.
66. Lee KAP. Injuries caused by animals. In: Mason JK, Purdue BN, eds. The Pathology of Trauma, 3rd ed. London: Arnold, 2000, pp. 265-282.
67. Willey P, Snyder L. Canid modification of human remains: implications for the time-since-death estimations. J Forensic Sci 1989;34(4):894-901.
68. Gruspier KL. Pathological changes on human skeletal remains: before, during or after? In: Fairgrieve SI, ed. Forensic Osteological Analysis: A Book of Case Studies. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1999, pp. 129-225.
69. Haglund WD, Connor M, Scott DD. The effect of cultivation on buried human remains. In: Haglund WD, Sorg MH, eds. Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002, pp. 133-150.