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KMID : 0377619950600080653
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1995 Volume.60 No. 8 p.653 ~ p.654
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The Estimation of The Approximate Age of Wound
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Abstract
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When examining a victim of violence, no forensic pathologist is fulfilling his role when one confines the report to merely numbered lists of wounds found on the corpse.
Of course, the nature, exact position, direction, and dimensions of every injury should be described, and it should be photographed. However, the distinction between ante-mortem and postmortem injuries and their proper timing is one the cardinal problems of forensic medicine. It helps not only to convict guilty but also to acquit persons who are suspect but in fact not guilty. The cause of death is sometimes of less importance than the reconstruction of events, which may become possible with careful examination of the wounds and their proper timing.
As with time of death, it can be a very difficult matter in forensic medical investigations to determine whether a wound found at autopsy was inflicted before or after death, and if ante-mortem, how long before death was it sustained? Unfortunately, as with so many problems, biological variability introduces a wide range of uncertainty about the time of wound, so that a range of probabilities can be offered, but never a definite time interval.
Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss pros and cons about various dating methods of ante-mortem wound that have been published.
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