[hermantheshocker]

Alabama, United States. This young man was working at a loading dock when a reversing semi-trailer crushed his head against a wall. In fig.1, note the obviously distorted appearance of the head, the internal aspect of which is demonstrated in fig.2. There are multiple widely displaced skull fractures at the skull base. We see evidence of extruded brain matter, this time into post-cranial areas with figs.3-4 illustrating brain matter in the stomach and bronchi, respectively. One can appreciate that very high pressure is formed within the skull with these types of injuries. This translates into the forcible displacement of cranial contents into the pharynx, trachea, and esophagus.


Fig.1 Obviously distorted appearance of the head.

When the head is impacted by a moving object while it is resting against an immovable surface, crush injuries occur. In these circumstances, skull bones have widely displaced comminuted fractures, the brain is lacerated, pulpified and may be extruded through the cranial and scalp injuries.


Fig.2 Internal aspect of the head.


Fig.3 Brain matter in the stomach.


Fig.4 Brain matter in the bronchi.


Fig.5 Portrait version of fig.1.

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[horatio]

Hey yooooou guys

[ChristySD]

Truck back up.......you move. Simple, right?!?! Apparently not!! Thank you, Herman, I LOVE this shit!! I was a med student with a specialty in trauma surgery so I eat this up!!!

[Karma]

Wow. Poor guy. Fascinating pics. How did brain matter end up in his stomach though?

[Oonie]

Originally Posted by Karma ↗

Wow. Poor guy. Fascinating pics. How did brain matter end up in his stomach though?

It was a closed head injury, so the tissue had to take the past of least resistance. Unlike other crush injuries, this one was very high on the body, leaving the rest of the tissues relatively unimpeded. So it was forced down his throat into both the trachea and the esophagus. Poor guy. I hope it was quick enough that he never saw it coming.

[HeyJealousy]

Good shit. Again.

[11B2P]

Originally Posted by Karma ↗

Wow. Poor guy. Fascinating pics. How did brain matter end up in his stomach though?

It says how in the write up. Read.

[Sa Bal]

Ate his own brain for a last meal what a way to go. I'm really digging mentally exploring the physics and fluid dynamics at play when the brain hit the esophagus and trachea and had to pick a fork in the road to go down

[peachpie]

Aw poor guy

[Tracy210t]

Wow that really is fascinating. Shocking actually. It never occurred to me in smashing injuries of the head that the brain would end up in the stomach