Compressive rib fracture: Peri-mortem and post-mortem trauma patterns in a pig model

Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 193-201

  Kieser, Jules A ^a   Weller, Sarah ^a   Swain, Michael V ^a   Neil Waddell, J ^a   Das, Raj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Forensic science; Rib fracture; Trauma; Wounding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE INJURY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC PIG; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MALE; MICROFLUIDICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; RIB FRACTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STANDARD; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORENSIC SCIENCES; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RIB FRACTURES; RIBS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878799209     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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