title: [Forensic medical criteria for the assessment of severity of harm to the health in subjects with zygomatic bone fractures].
abstract: Expert reports concerning subjects with zygomatic bone fractures were analysed and comprehensively evaluated using investigatory, clinical and anamnestic data. A total of 704 forensic medical reports were available for the purpose including 225 (32%) isolated and 479 (68%) combined fractures. It was shown that most complications of zygomatic fractures develop late in the post-traumatic period which requires repeated examination of the patients within at least one month after the injury. It is emphasized that such examination must involve neuropathologist, ophthalmologist, and maxillofacial surgeon to adequately evaluate harm to the health in patients with isolated zygomatic fractures. The main causes of discrepancy between results of estimation of harm to the health during primary and subsequent forensic medical examination of subjects with zygomatic fractures are considered.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Zharov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Klevno
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Grigor'eva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D015051:Zygomatic Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy