title: [A comparative analysis of the incidence of the occurrence of injuries to the soft tissues, bones and internal chest organs in trauma from a fall from a height and from the collision of a moving car with a pedestrian].
abstract: The author compares the incidence of injuries to soft tissues, bones, and thoracic organs in two types of traumas: falling from height and collision of a pedestrian with a moving car. A total of 100 corpses of subjects who died from such traumas were examined. The incidence of the detected injuries is shown on figures. Comparison of the graphic images indicates that trauma from falling from height results in more massive and numerous injuries to the chest than from collision with a moving car. Fractures of the spine, bleedings to the pleural cavity, mediastinum, and the heart coating, and ruptures of the aorta, lungs, and heart more often result from falling from height. Collision of a pedestrian with a moving car more often leads to fractures of the clavicle, sternum at the level of the third or fourth sternocostal joining, and punctate hemorrhages under the lung pleura.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Gaĭvoronskaia
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000401:mortality* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D012421:Rupture / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*