title: [Peculiarities of destruction in the facial area of the skull].
abstract: Injuries observed in the facial skull area (FSA) in trauma made by hard blunt objects are registered within the forensic medical examinations of cadavers by far more rare than they are actually encountered in life. At the same time, a statement made to the effect that it was FSA that was affected in injuries of the cerebral skull area (CSA) is of an important forensic medical value. According to our research, the "strength beams" present in FSA and CSA are ovals and semi-ovals positioned above one another in 3 layers (top, medium and low ones). The anterior sections of all layers of FSA "strength beams" and of adjoining CSA regions, i.e. the squama of frontal bone (low one third of it) as well as anterior and middle cranial fossas, are a single deformative strength system. Specific features of each impact-zone region affect greatly a character of injuries in FSA at traumas in the medium facial third. Bones in the anterior and middle cranial fossas are damaged, apart from cranial injuries, in certain variations of impacts to FSA.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Anikeeva
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Shadymov
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Iankovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000473:pathology*