title: [The application of radiological imaging in the forensic pathology about cervical part].
abstract: Multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are useful to analyze cervical injury. Especially in injury of skeleton and soft tissue, it has equal value with conventional autopsy. Even they can reparation some shortcoming consisted in the cervical part autopsy. In some difficult postmortem examination of decomposed, charred or highly infectious cadavers and in some religion country, they should be a useful alternative way to examine injury in cervical part of cadaver such as mechanical asphyxia, whiplash injury, vertebra injury, or vascular injury.
authors.affiliation: West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. xieying1024@126.com
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xu-Fu
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Xiao-Gang
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Xiao-Rong
authors.initials: XR
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Li-Juan
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001237:Asphyxia / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed / Q000379:methods*