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JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 69-72Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00593.x
Keywords
forensic science; forensic anthropology; bone fracture patterns; perimortem trauma; postmortem trauma
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The determination of perimortem trauma is important for forensic anthropologists. Characteristics of bone fractures such as sharp edges, presence of fracture lines, the shape of the broken ends, fracture surface morphology, fracture angle on the Z-axis, and butterfly fractures are said to differentiate perimortem from postmortem trauma. A Drop Weight Impact Test Machine was used to break 76 deer femora of various ages since death. The results of this study suggest that the characteristics listed above are unreliable at differentiating a perimortem fracture from a postmortem fracture in a forensic case. There are, however, statistically significant differences between fresh bones broken less than 4 days old and dry bones broken 44 days or 1 year old after death.
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