@article{d1a5ddb09e4311df928f000ea68e967b,
title = "Craniocerebral trauma--congruence between post-mortem computed tomography diagnoses and autopsy results: a 2-year retrospective study",
abstract = "Computed tomography (CT) has been used routinely at the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen since 2002. A retrospective study was performed in order to correlate CT-scan based diagnoses of cranial and cerebral lesions with macroscopic autopsy diagnoses in 56 cases. The CT-scans were performed by a forensic pathologist. They were obtained by using two different CT-scan protocols. The results showed correct skull fracture diagnoses in 34/56 cases. Fractures were diagnosed partially (9) or missed totally (13) on CT-images in 22 cases. The agreement for fracture diagnoses of the anterior, medial and posterior cranial fossae was 20%, 52% and 60%, respectively. Fractures involving bilateral bones were diagnosed correctly more frequently. The diagnostic agreement regarding brain injuries varied from 0% to 79%. Both the autopsy-reports and CT-scan descriptions need to be standardized in order to secure more exact comparisons in the future.",
author = "Christina Jacobsen and Niels Lynnerup",
note = "Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Brain; Brain Injuries; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Forensic Pathology; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Middle Aged; Observer Variation; Retrospective Studies; Skull; Skull Fractures; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Young Adult",
year = "2010",
month = jan,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.10.001",
language = "English",
volume = "194",
pages = "9--14",
journal = "Forensic Science International",
issn = "0379-0738",
publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
number = "1-3",
}