Age Related Changes in Accidental Contusion at Tertiary Care Centre Patond Swapnil1, Mohite Prakash2,*, Ninave Sudhir3, Wankhade Pawan4, Pande Varsha5 1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine JNMC, DMIMS, Wardha, Maharashtra 2Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine JNMC, DMIMS, Wardha, Maharashtra 3Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine JNMC, DMIMS, Wardha, Maharashtra 4Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, CCMMC, Durg, Chhattisgarh 5Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy JNMC, DMIMS, Wardha, Maharashtra *Corresponding Author: Dr. Prakash Mohite, Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine JNMC, DMIMS, Wardha. E-mail: drprakashmohite@rediffmail.com, Mob.: 9850397120
Online published on 27 November, 2019. Abstract Introduction Estimation of age of contusion plays a very important role in medicolegal cases. Contusion is defined as infiltration of extravasated blood into the subcutaneous tissues resulting from rupture of small blood vessels due to application of blunt force. Approximate Age of contusions is usually determined based on their colour. Aim & Objective To identify the colour changes in contusion in order to determine age of appearance. To compare differences in colour changes of contusion based previous studies. Material and Method 90 cases of contusion of known ages were examined by expert to estimate the age. The time of infliction of injury i: e contusion and its mechanism was obtained by taking history from the victim and accompanying person & its site, size or dimension and colour of injured tissue along with some collaborative findings present around the injury were noted. Values were recorded for each bruise and statistically analyzed. Results Findings of Present study supported a previous conclusion that color and intensity of colour were the most commonly used feature to determine the age of contusion, visual evaluation which is an approximate method for ageing of contusion. Conclusions The most common finding found in change of colour of injured tissue was yellow which was most significant. The occurrence of blue, bluish black colour was of lesser implication. However, results within subjects suggested that there may be individual variation in haemoglobin metabolism Top Keywords Contusion, Age estimation, Injury. Top |