AHSEN KAYA, Ali VARLIHAN, EKİN ÖZGÜR AKTAŞ

Acute aortic transection caused by traffic accident: As a forensic case

ISSN: 2147-0634
Yayın Aralığı: 4
Başlangıç: 2012
Yayıncı: Effect Publishing Agency ( EPA )

Traffic accidents are one of the most common causes of blunt traumatic injuries and also significant causes of mortality and morbidity. To know injury patterns of traffic accidents will ensure early medical intervention and will reduce mortality and morbidity and also will facilitate the assessment of prevailing findings in criminal and compensation cases. In this case report, it was aimed to draw attention to the forensic subjects and the features of forensic cases via a 46-year-old male patient who had acute aortic transection due to traffic accidents.

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