title: Identification by MRI.
abstract: A semi-skeletted water-lodged corpse was supposed to be an 82-year-old missed man. Fifteen years ago this person underwent an operation of a trimalleolar fracture of the left ankle joint. Conventional X-ray photograms of the left ankle joint of the water-lodged corpse showed no evidence of an operation. A T-1 weighted spin-echo sequence revealed the entire aspect of the osteosynthesis as documented in the previously performed post-operative X-ray photograms.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin im Klinikum der Albert-Ludwig-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amberg
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fürmaier
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016512:Ankle Injuries; D000843:Ankle Joint / Q000473:pathology; D004332:Drowning / Q000473:pathology*; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male