[The application of radiological imaging in the forensic pathology about cervical part].
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.
Xie
Ying
Y
West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. xieying1024@126.com
Yi
Xu-Fu
XF
Cheng
Xiao-Gang
XG
Zhou
Xiao-Rong
XR
Cui
Li-Juan
LJ
Lin
Xia
X
Wang
Qing
Q
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*