Citation

Tattoli L, Tsokos M, Buschmann C. Forensic Sci. Med. Pathol. 2018; 14(1): 123-126.

Affiliation

Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Turmstr. 21, Building N, 10559, Berlin, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12024-018-9953-2

PMID

29441442

Abstract

Patterned bruising of the internal organs is unusual. In these cases a cutaneous pattern of bruising is not observed but the underlying tissue may show unusual injuries that may even be recognizable as a tramline pattern. We report the suicide of a 23-year-old man by jumping off a bridge. At autopsy, an unusual finding was "tramline" bruising of the right liver lobe. The "blunt objects" that inflicted the bruising were determined to be the right ribs which were pushed against the liver capsule as a consequence of the extensive thoracic and vertebral trauma after a fall from a height with intermediate impact.

Language: en

Keywords

Fall from height; Patterned injuries; Suicide; Tramline bruising