title: Incidence of auditory ossicle luxation and petrous bone fractures detected in post-mortem multislice computed tomography (MSCT).
abstract: As the auditory ossicles are difficult to display without harming them in conventional autopsies, lesions of these minute bones and the ossicular chain are regularly missed. In this study, the method of choice in clinical medicine for the examination of such lesions, namely multislice computed tomography, was applied to 100 corpses. The hereby obtained results regarding ossicle luxation and petrous bone fracture indicated that the lesions were not dependant on the amount, but rather on the type of energy inflicted to the head.
authors.affiliation: University of Bern, Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, IRM, Buehlstrasse 20, CH 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hollinger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Christe
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Thali
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Kneubuehl
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oesterhelweg
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Spendlove
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bolliger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007223:Infant; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010579:Petrous Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D055815:Young Adult