Adli Antropolojide Perimortem ve Postmortem Kırıkların Ayırımı ve Travma Analizlerindeki Önemi

Forensic anthropologists assist medicolegal officials with determination and interpretation of perimortem and postmortem traumas on the bones of the deceased. Although the fractures caused by these traumas has typical characteristics, it becomes very difficult to abstract in some cases. In such cases, the morphology of fracture surface is analysed. Angle, shape, structure of the fracture and colour difference between fracture surface and cortical bone should be taken into consideration in analysing process. This paper discusses how perimortem and postmortem fractures are determined on bones, differences between them, variety of bone traumas exhibit typical characteristics of perimortem and postmortem fractures, and the methods are used in cases that perimortem and postmortem fractures are hard to be abstracted from each other.