title: [Forensic-medical aspects in assessment of damage to health as the result of chest and low back spinal traumas].
abstract: By the law of the Russian Federation, forensic medical examination is obligatory to assess damage to health in chest and low back spinal traumas. In persons who survived spinal trauma the assessment of its severity is regulated by the rules of assessment of the severity of bodily damage and harm to health. Difficulties arising in this assessment are outlined. Damage to health is proposed to be evaluated not only by clinical data on the condition of the patients but also by macro- and microscopic results of forensic-medical examination of the dead body, by the presence and severity of edema of the spinal cord tissue.
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Solokhin
mesh_terms: D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D012445:Sacrococcygeal Region; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices