1Associate Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Govt. General Hospital Campus, Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada
2Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Govt. General Hospital Campus, Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada
The implication of a crime as serious and complex as homicide indicates that complete anatomic study should be carried out as soon as possible in any death, which may have resulted from the purposeful, intentional or even accidental act of another person. Blunt cranio-cerebral trauma causes more homicidal deaths than do blunt injuries to all other areas on the body combined as head is the target of choice in the great majority of fatal assaults. The forensic expert must place his professional skills at the disposal of the law enforcement authorities by pin pointing the cause of death, object which caused the fatal injuries and the time of injury. The present analysis of epidemiologically representative ICH patient material was made in order to improve our knowledge by fixation of age of intracranial hemorrhages in relation to the occurrence of incident and by histopathological examination to enhance its legal value.
Homicide, Head Injury, Subdural Hemorrhages, Histopathology, Fixation of Time of Injury
