[Forensic identification of floating shoulder injury].
OBJECTIVE
To discuss forensic identification of floating shoulder injury (FSI).


METHODS
To analyze fifteen cases of FSI which were accepted from Jan. 1993 to Jan. 2006, including 15 shoulder neck fracture, 13 clavide stem fracture and 2 distal end clavide fracture, the function of shoulder joint was evaluated six months after injure considering the following three aspects: result of forensic examination such as X-ray photograph, CT and MRI, the injurers' symptom, objective sign and joint function, shoulder joint territory, degree of pain and local muscle power.


RESULTS
Basing on the curative effect standard of Herscovic, all cases were divided into good. Modest, worst, which included 2, 4, 9 cases respectively; referring the standard of GA35-92, GB18667-2002, all cases were divided into six, seven, eight, nine and ten degree, which included 2,9,2,1,1 cases respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
As a special powerful injure, FSI always companied with concurrent and multiple injure, and characterized by missed, incorrect and delayed diagnosis and infelicitous treatment, which lead to the high frequency and degree of injure. To prevent missed and incorrect forensic identification, we should have a full realization of the particularity of FSI, and evaluate the function of shoulder all-sidely, objectively and synseticaly.
Li
Sheng-Ya
SY
Traffic Department of Nanchong Police Bureau, Nanchong 637000, China. syli3383696@yahoo.com.cn
Huang
Si-Xing
SX
Zhao
Xing-Bin
XB
Zheng
Xiao-Hong
XH
Zhu
Yi
Y
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002968:Clavicle / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005553:Forensic Dentistry / Q000379:methods*; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012540:Scapula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D000070599:Shoulder Injuries; D012785:Shoulder Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult