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02-11-2010, 01:29 AM
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Autopsy Preformed on A Two Year Old Child
This 2-year-old child was brought to the ER by his mother’s boyfriend after he was found unresponsive. They only observed external injuries, and a small faint contusion to the child’s forehead. Autopsy revealed a fracture of the lumbar spine with a transected descending thoracic aorta and an old healed fractured clavicle. The second picture demonstrates bilateral hemothoraces. Image (a) demonstrates the volume of blood collected from the bilateral hemothoraces (approximately 165 ml in total), in a case such as this, the mechanisms of death are probably multifactorial, including not only blood loss but also a component of the spinal cord or sympathetic nervous system dysfunction. (b) depicts transected free ends of lacerated descending thoracic aorta, marked with arrows (c) is a panoramic view of lumbar fracture. |