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Rom J Leg Med24(3)180-189(2016)
DOI:10.4323/rjlm.2016.180
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Correlation of lesions in the corpus callosum and course of impact in linear head injuries

C. Schirmer,


Abstract: This is a retrospective investigation of both forensic autopsy and neuropathological examination findings of 107 blunt head injuries of adults and children collected from 1980 to 2005, from the Forensic Institute of Berlin (until 2004 from the Free University of Berlin). Macroscopic lesions in central structures, defined as being the ventricular system and close-by grey matter, were found in 68 cases which are connected with macroscopic corpus callosum (CC) lesions. This is 63.6% of the 107 cases with central brain lesions. Because of the high involvement of the CC in traumatic brain injuries, this structure plays a central part in investigating traumatic intracranial pathology. The object of the study is the localization of lesions in the CC in correlation with a linear force to the head, excluding diffuse intracerebral trauma findings. For this analysis 25 cases were eligible. In every case lesions were found in a linear direction in the CC. In those cases the lesions of the CC can help to reconstruct the accident.
Keywords: blunt head injury, corpus callosum injuries, diffuse axonal injury, subependymal hemorrhage, inner cerebraltrauma.



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