Skip to main content

Table 3 Comparison of the digitised fracture length to the fracture length as measured on CT images of the first reading

From: A comparative study of cranial, blunt trauma fractures as seen at medicolegal autopsy and by Computed Tomography

Case no.

Digitiser

CT (cm)

Digitiser - CT subtraction sum (cm)

Anatomic localisation of miss

#9

13.4

8.3

5.1

Occipital bone T-shaped hairline fracture

#11

22.2

17.5

4.7

Petrous bone, minor wing of the sphenoid (~1 cm each)

and H-shaped fracture in the occiput

#6

20.3

18.1

2.2

Parietal bone (0.6 cm) and petrous bone (1.6 cm)

#1

22.1

10.3

11.8

Petrous bone ~3 cm and the great sphenoid wing (~8.8 cm)

#14

6.7 (length)

2.4 (width)

5.8 (length)

1.7 (width)

0.9 (length)

0.7 (width)

Depression fracture of the parietal bone

  1. The fracture of the eye loft in case no. 6 was not digitised