1PG Student Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore-570001
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore-570001
3PG Student Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore-570001
4Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore-570001
5Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore-570001
6Prof and HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore-570001
* Corresponding author Dr. Anand P Rayamane Phone: +91- 7259114490 Email: anandprayamane@gmail.com
Pulmonary contusion is the most common injury found in blunt chest trauma, occurring in 25–35% of cases. Blunt chest wall trauma was defined as blunt chest injury resulting in chest wall contusion or rib fractures, with or without non-immediate life-threatening lung injury. People with mild contusion may not show any signs and symptoms but with severe pulmonary contusion tenderness, dyspnoea, cyanosis haemoptysis are usual findings and in absence of timely treatment could lead to fatal complications such as ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) or pneumonia. Herewith reviewing autopsy case of young adult in exhumed case who sustained blunt trauma to chest by assault and later succumbed to its ignored complications. This case emphasizes importance of meticulous autopsy, proper circumstantial and clinical history at arriving at definitive cause of death.
Blunt Chest Trauma, Pulmonary Contusion, Exhumation and Autopsy
