| Literature DB >> 27577195 |
Sven Schmidt1, Ronald Schulz1, Heidi Pfeiffer1, Andreas Schmeling2, Gunther Geserick3.
Abstract
A pedestrian was killed in a road traffic accident by collision with a car coming from the right. The victim's right femur was observed to have sustained a wedge-shaped fracture with biconcave side edges (so-called Messerer fracture), with the apex of the wedge pointing in the direction opposite to the direction of travel of the car. The absence of skin or soft tissue injuries in the area of the fracture means that it is reasonable to assume that this 'reverse wedge fracture' is an indirect fracture. The mechanism by which characteristic wedge-shaped fractures are produced through compression along the longitudinal axis of the bone has long been known. When reconstructing the direction of travel of a car involved in a collision with a pedestrian, forensic pathologists should therefore be cautious of assessing Messerer fractures in isolation.Entities:
Keywords: Car-pedestrian collision; Forensic traumatology; Messerer fracture; Road traffic accident
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27577195 DOI： 10.1007/s00414-016-1437-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Legal Med ISSN： 0937-9827 Impact factor: 2.686