@article{ref1,
title="The mechanism of fatal cardiopulmonary injury caused by a blow from a golf club",
journal="Forensic science international",
year="1989",
author="Purdue, B. and Fernando, G. C.",
volume="42",
number="1-2",
pages="125-130",
abstract="In the course of a scuffle, a youth of 18 years was struck a single blow across the chest with a golf club. He collapsed dead on the spot. At autopsy, a precisely located and highly distinctive patterned imprint abrasion of the precordial region was revealed providing an excellent match with the weapon. The heart showed multiple internal ruptures and there was a laceration of the lingula of the left lung. Injury to the chest wall was confined to the soft tissues, the rib cage and sternum being intact. We postulate a novel mechanism to explain the cardiac rupture.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0379-0738",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}