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Homicidal blunt abdominal trauma with isolated laceration of the small bowel mesentery

✍ Scribed by Eriksson, A.

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Weight: 496 KB
Volume: 93
Category: Article
ISSN: 1437-1596
DOI: 10.1007/bf00200773

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✦ Synopsis

Nonpenetrating abdominal trauma rarely causes isolated mesenteric lacerations with fatal hemorrhages. When this does happen, it is often the result of compression by a lap seat belt or a steering wheel, only extremely rarely is it the result of a homicidal act.

In the present paper, two homicide victims with resulting mesenteric tears and fatal bleeding due to sagittal compression are described. A high blood alcohol concentration may in both cases have contributed to the fatal outcome. The cases support the assumption that direct rather than indirect trauma causes this kind of lesion.

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