@article{ref1,
title="Post-mortem evaluation of drowning with whole body CT",
journal="Forensic science international",
year="2015",
author="Plaetsen, Sarah Vander and De Letter, Els and Piette, Michel and Van Parys, Geert and Casselman, Jan W. and Verstraete, Koenraad",
volume="249C",
number="",
pages="35-41",
abstract="PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to investigate the value of whole body computed tomography (WB-CT) in bodies recovered from water by analysis of the imaging findings after drowning. <br><br>METHODS: The bodies of 41 drowning victims and 9 persons who died from mechanical asphyxia by hanging underwent post-mortem whole body computed tomography. <br><br>RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Excessive fluid in the paranasal sinuses (98%), nasal pharynx (98%), oropharynx (95%), trachea (83%), ground glass opacities in the lung (89%), pleural fluid (71%), pericardial fluid (59%), esophageal fluid (81%), stomach fluid and distension (71%), duodenal (34%) and jejunal distension (31%) were the most frequent drowning related imaging findings which significantly differed from the group of mechanical asphyxia by hanging. In cases of fresh water drowning hemodilution was present in 79%. New and up to now unpublished findings were lower density in the spleen, indicative for hemodilution and detection of a pronounced amount of pericardial fluid, only seen in drowning victims.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0379-0738",
doi="10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.01.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.01.008"
}