Expert assessment of the number and nature of traumatic effects in blunt spleen injury

One of the issues of interest to investigating authorities and the courts in ordering forensic medical examinations of injuries of internal organs is the possibility of determining the number of traumatic effects. In the specialized scientific literature, there is no data on the determination of the number of traumatic effects on the spleen, as well as the establishment of signs of repeated trauma in the morphology of ruptures of this organ. As a result of the study, it was found that with repeated shock trauma, the morphology of the primary damage to the spleen changes due to the addition of shear deformations to the shock load due to the loss of strength of the organ as a whole during its primary damage. Such morphological changes are characteristic of repeated trauma to the spleen. The obtained data can be used in practice by forensic experts in solving questions about the number of traumatic effects and the presence of signs of repeated trauma to the spleen.

spleen, first ruptures, secondary stroke, signs of repeated trauma, stretching of the tissue, ridges of longitudinal and transverse shear, number of traumatic effects