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Z Marek

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Suicides committed by minors.

The bodies of 76 minors, below 18 years of age, who died as a consequence of committing suicide during the years 1960 to 1974 were examined in the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Cracow. The youngest victim was a boy 8 1/2 years of age. The majority of cases (63) referred to minors aged 16-18. The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting). Among the motives for suicide the first place is taken by personal troubles, mostly school failures, then bad health and family conflicts. Prior suicidal attempts were noted in 13 cases and in 10 others oral declarations of suicide were made. Motives for suicide essentially differ from those found in earlier studies from the years 1881-1939, where ill luck in love and undesired pregnancy were treated as one of the important factors leading to suicide.

Adolescent↗
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Hyperpigmentation in the long bones of the lower limbs as a basis for vehicle identification and traffic accident reconstruction.

Following the earlier studies on the identification of injuries in unbroken cranial bones, the described method was adapted for the examination of the long bones in fatal casualties of traffic accidents. Two types of bumper injuries might occur: the bumper was found to cause fracturing of limbs [1], and femoral muscle contusions and microtraumas within compact and spongiose parts in the femoral with subsequent maculate hyperpigmentation [2]. The authors show that the correlation of above mentioned traces of the trauma, facilitates the reconstruction of the accident and also the identification of the vehicle.

Accidents, Traffic↗
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[Radiograms of the paranasal sinuses as a principle of identifying catastrophe victims and unknown skeletons].

The paper is devoted to the identification on the base of X-ray of frontal sinuses. These sinuses, developed in puberty doesn't change its shape during aging. Differentiation of the size and shape of sinuses is remarkable and probably is one of the individual features of the man. The system of classification of sinuses is proposed, basing on the area size, shape and symmetry. In the current everyday practice all X-ray radiograms are destroyed after five years of storage in Poland. For identification purpose all radiograms of sinuses and A-P punctures of skull should be stored in radiology departments, and arranged according to proposed classification system. The case is presented, in which the pictures of skull were the base of successful identification of skeleton.

Disasters↗