[Postmortem computed tomography of the frozen corpse].
Yu V ChumakovaS E DubrovaVladimir A KlevnoZ Yu SokolovaPublished in: Sudebno-meditsinskaia ekspertiza (2022)
The purpose of the work is to identify the possibilities of computed tomography in establishing postmortem changes in the bones of the skeleton and internal organs during in a frozen corpse. The article describes a case from thanatological practice with the performance of a pre-sectional computed tomography of a corpse of a young woman found in a forest in a state of complete freezing. As a result of the study, CT images of frozen internal organs were obtained, which are never found in clinical practice. Significant changes in the CT pattern were revealed due to a decrease in the density of the frozen zones. The use of pre-sectional computed tomography enabled to identify postmortem changes in internal organs formed during freezing of the corpse; the position of the corpse during its glaciation and the uniformity of the freezing process.