Pattern of Visceral and Peritoneal Injuries in Fatal Blunt Abdominal Trauma at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India Yangala Ramu1, Sundaragiri Suraj2,*, Koppada Vijaya Durga3 1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Adilabad, Telangana, India 2Senior Resident, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, India 3Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Chittor, Andhra Pradesh, India *Corresponding Author: Dr. Suraj Sundaragiri, Senior Resident, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, India. 605006, Email: drsurajfm@gmail.com, Contact No.: 091-9908267327
Online published on 8 August, 2019. Abstract The present prospective study aims to establish the pattern of visceral and peritoneal injuries in cases with blunt abdominal trauma subjected to post-mortem examination in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, Telangana for two years period between June 2010 and May 2012. Details pertaining to Cause of injury, pattern of injuries and cause of death were obtained from post mortem examination reports. The study revealed that among 150 cases in the study period, existence of both liver and spleen injuries (n=35; 23.33%) was most common followed by liver injury (n=23; 15.33%). The most frequent visceral and peritoneal injury reported was liver in 72 cases (48%), followed by mesentery in 54 cases (36%), spleen in 52 (34.67%) and intestine in 47 cases (31.33%). Abdominal injury was found associated with other injuries like head, chest, limb injuries in 36% cases. Top Keywords Blunt trauma, Abdominal injury, Fatal, Pattern of injury, Autopsy cases. Top |