1Senior Resident, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Aruna Asaf Ali Govt. Hospital & Subzi Mandi Mortuary, New Delhi
2Senior Resident, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, G S Medical College, Pilkhuwa, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
4Director Professor & Head of Department Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
5Professor & Head of Department Dept of Forensic Medicine, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, New Delhi
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Arun Kumar Siddamsetty Address: Flat No 152B, Pocket A, Dilshad Garden, Delhi-110095 Mobile: 9990905809, E mail: dr_arunsid@yahoo.com
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
Examination of injuries is one of the important aspects of forensic experts at the time of medicolegal autopsy. Abrasion, electrocution and flame burns may appear similar on gross examination at the time of autopsy. The aim of the present study was to differentiate these three types of lesions on the basis of histopathological examination. 20 specimens of skin tissue from all three types of lesions was collected, processed and examined under light microscopy for six histopathological findings. Result showed significant relation between histopathological findings and type of lesion.
Abrasion, Electrocution, Flame burns, Intraepidermal separation, Subepidermal separation, Nuclear elongation
