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Outline
• Introduction
• Definition
• Types of wounds
• Healing
• Approach to forensic wound
• Wound investigation sheet
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Objectives
• Describe the types of wounds.
• Document the wound in official reports.
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Introduction
• Wound is an initial step into forensic medicine world.
• Physical or chemical force producing injuries to tissues.
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Introduction
• Force or energy
• Energy transfer
• Tissue injury
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Energy Transfer
• Surface area of impact
• Time interval of transfer
• Energy absorbed
• Lever action force
• Plasticity and elasticity
• Inertia
• Hydrostatic force
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Definition
• Wound
– an injury or damage, usually restricted to those caused by physical means with disruption of normal continuity of structures.
– บาดแผล
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Definition
• Ulcer
– Lesion from infection, inflammation, malignancy or necrosis.
– แผล
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Definition
• Patterned wound
– The size and shape of the wounding object appeared on the wound.
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Types of Wounds
• According to types of forces.
• According to types of weapons or sources.
– Gun
– Electric current
• According to types of issues.
– Sexual assault
– Child abuse
– Elder negligence
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Types of Wounds
• According to intention
– Self inflicted wound: hesitation, pathetic
– Defense wound
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Wounds from Mechanical Forces
• Blunt force injury
– Abrasion
– Contusion
– Laceration
• Sharp force injury
– Abrasion
– Cut
– Stab
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Forces
Blunt force Sharp force
contusion abrasion cut laceration stab
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Force
Abrasion
epidermis
dermis
laceration cut or incise/stab contusion
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Abrasion
• Injury to the superficial part of the tissue.
• Injury to the epithelial surface of the tissue.
• Loss or destruction of epithelium.
• Sometimes deep to injure capillary causing bleeding and serosanguineous fluid leakage and drying to form reddish brown scab.
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Abrasion
• Friction-scraping, brush, graze, sliding
• Scratch
• Rubbing
• Direct pressure or impact
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Scratch
• Linear abrasion
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Brush burn
• Sliding abrasion on rough surface of the road.
• Gravel rash.
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Patterned Abrasion
• Imprint or stamp of object onto the tissues.
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Antemortem or Postmortem
• Antemortem
– Reddish-brown appearance
• Postmortem
– Yellow and translucent
– Parchment like
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Healing of Abrasion
• Scab formation
• Epithelialization
• Subepidermal granulation
• Remodelling
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Scab
• Deposition of serum, red blood cells and fibrins on the abrasion.
• Infiltration of PMN. (early at 2 h, but usually 4 – 6 h)
• Three separated zones in 12 h
– Upper of serum, RBC and fibrin
– Middle of PMN
– Base of damaged epithelium
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Epithelial Regeneration
• Arise in surviving hair follicle and at the edge of the abrasion.
• Epithelial growth appears as early as 30 h.
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Subepidermal Granulation
• Occur only after epithelial covering of an abrasion.
• Prominent at 5 – 8 d.
• Prominent perivascular infiltration and chronic inflammatory cells.
• Overlying epithelium becomes progressively hyperplastic with formation of keratin. (9 – 12 d)
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Regression
• Begin at about day 12.
• Remodelling of epithelium, then thinner and even atrophic.
• Prominent collagen fibers.
• Definite basement membrane and decrease vascularity of dermis.
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Contusion
• Compression or stretching causing rupture of the blood vessels in the tissue.
• Extravasation of blood into surrounding tissues.
• Occur in any tissues
– In skin: bruise
– Hemorrhage
– Petechial hemorrhage 2 mm
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Severity of Contusion
• Force
• Soft, lax and vascular tissues
• Bleeding diatheses
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Contusion
• Differentiation from livor mortis
– Area
– Cannot be wiped or squeezed
– Extravasation into surrounding tissues
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Patterned Contusion
• Tramline contusion
– Rod
– train-track-like line, railway line
• Love mark
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Characteristic Contusion
• Battle’s sign
• Raccoon’s eyes, Panda’s eyes, spectacle hematoma
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Resolve of Contusion
• Initial dark blue or purple of crimson.
• Violet
• Green
• Dark yellow
• Pale yellow
• Disappear
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Resolve of Contusion
• Earliest yellow discoloration in 18 h.
• Earliest hemosiderin in macrophage in 24 h.
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Postmortem Contusion
• Can be produced with severe force in early postmortem at the congested vessels.
• Artefact: Prinsloo Gorgon Bleeding in Posterior aspect of esophagus.
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Laceration
• Tear or disruption of tissue by stretching, shearing or crushing from blunt force.
• Occur in any tissues
• At the skin, tend to be irregular with abraded contused margins.
• Bridges of tissue running from side to side.
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Laceration
• Long and thin object (pipe, pool cue)
– Linear laceration
• Flat surface object
– Irregular, ragged or Y-shaped laceration
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Chop Wound
• Heavy object with relatively sharp edge
– Axes, machetes, meat cleavers
• Dull knife
– Resemble an incised wound
– Abraded margins
– Bridging tissue (+/-)
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Avulsion
• Force impact oblique to the skin, ripping the skin and soft tissue off the underlying tissue.
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Cut
• Cut or incised wound
• More length than depth
• The edge of the wound in the skin is typically sharp, without abrasion or contusion.
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Severity
• Sharpness of the tip.
• The consistency of the tissue.
• Direction and amount of force.
• Injured organ.
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Stab wounds
• More depth than length.
• Length of the wound in the skin can be equal or greater than the width of the knife.
• Depth of the stab wound can be equal to, less than, or greater than the length of the knife blade.
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Stab wounds
• Shape of a stab wound is affected by the shape of the object and Langer’s lines of the skin.
• Bilateral pointed end: double-edged weapon.
• One pointed with one squared off (blunted): single-edged weapon.
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Stab wounds
• Y- or L-shaped stab wound
– Twisted weapon while withdrawn
– Moving stabbed person
• Guard metal piece appearing on the thrust plunge whole blade into the tissue. (hilt in the sword)
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Stab wounds
• Broken bottle
– Clusters of wounds
– Different sizes, shapes and depths.
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Depth, length and width
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Puncture wound
• Pointed object with small diameter.
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Perforated Wound
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Healing of Separated Skin
• Continuous and overlapping process.
• Start immediately after injury.
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Approach to Forensic Cases
• Normal or abnormal appearances
• Antemortem or postmortem
• When did it occur?
• By which object, cause and mechanism?
• By whom?
• With intention or not?
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Antemortem
• Vital reaction
– Bleed
– Clot
– Inflammation
– Healing
– Complication
• Infection
• embolism
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Perimortem
• Difficult to separate whether ante or postmortem.
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Sudden Loss of Consciousness?
• ARAS
• 10 – 50 seconds glucose preservation in brain
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Sudden Death?
• Death
– Somatic
– Cellular death
• Somatic death
– Heart
– Lung
– Brain
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Documentation of Wound
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• Fact
• Opinion
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ใบน าสง่ผูบ้าดเจ็บหรอืศพให้แพทยต์รวจชนัสตูร
• Official document
• According to the laws
• By medical professionals
• ผลการตรวจชนัสตูรบาดแผลหรอืศพของแพทย ์
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Documentation
• Site. Anatomical position.
• Size. Dimensions of wound should be measured.
• Shape. Curved. Linear. Irregular. Straight etc.
• Surrounds. Condition of nearby tissues.
• Colour. Particularly when describing bruises.
• Contents. Note presence of foreign material in or around the wound.
• Borders. Note any characteristics of the edges of the wound.
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แนวทางการเขยีนใบชนัสตูรบาดแผล
• http://www.forensicchula.net
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Reasonable Opinion
• Base on a careful review of all the information available to the doctor.
• When subsequent information leads to an alteration of an original opinion, the doctor may need to revise his original opinion.
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