Abstract
Blunt trauma is the most common injury seen in forensic pathology practice. Cutaneous injuries, in most cases, are not fatal and are seemingly unimportant; however, their documentation has evidentiary value. Unlike the relative specificity of a penetrating injury to its origin, patterned blunt trauma injuries are infrequent; however, the distribution of external and internal injuries can fit a pattern consistent with a particular injury scenario. Unique injury patterns can be observed in fatalities related to motorized vehicles (e.g., restraint system). The cause and mechanism of death (e.g., hemorrhage, physical disruption) is self-evident in most site-specific injuries; however, like certain types of craniocerebral trauma, how the victim died can be subtle (e.g., commotio cordis). In some cases (e.g., fat embolism), microscopy assists in the determination of death caused by blunt trauma.
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