A retrospective study of 140 forensic pathology cases caused by both injury and disease
10.13618/j.issn.1001-5728.2023.06.021
- VernacularTitle:140例法医病理学伤病共存案例的回顾性研究
- Author:
Tingting MAI
1
;
Guoli LV
;
Xinbiao LIAO
;
Yangeng YU
;
Fu ZHANG
;
Bin LUO
;
Chao LIU
;
Erwen HUANG
Author Information
1. 中山大学中山医学院法医学系,广东省法医学转化医学工程技术研究中心,广东 广州 510080
- Keywords:
Forensic pathology;
Co-occurrence of injury and illness;
Cause of death
- From:
Chinese Journal of Forensic Medicine
2023;38(6):710-715
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
It is a challenge to determine the cause of death in cases caused by both injury and disease in forensic pathology examinations.Here,we retrospectively analyzed 140 such cases enrolled in the Sun Yat-sen University Forensic Identification Center from 2013 to 2021.It was found that the cases caused by both injury and disease accounted for 2.89%of the total number of cases during the same period.The male-to-female ratio was 5.09.Cardiovascular disease accounted for 71.43%of the death-leading diseases,and coronary heart disease accounted for 49.29%.Among the three types of injury and disease relationship,the proportion of disease-based and injury-assisted cases accounted for more than half(65.86%),and the proportion of injury and disease with the same effect cases was the least(12.14%).Medical treatment was involved in as more as 82.86%of the cases.Re-identification were carried out in 10.71%of the cases,53.33%of which were with a≤24-hour-survival time,higher than the proportion(20.80%)of this survival time in initial identification cases(x2 = 13.84,P = 0.000 2).This study revealed the epidemiological characteristics of cases caused by both injury and disease,and supplied useful data for improving the level of forensic identification in such cases.
