Rich Jeremy, Tatarek Nancy E, Powers Robert H, Brogdon B G, Lewis Bradley J, Dean Dorothy E
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
J Forensic Sci. 2002 Nov;47(6):1319-22.
An evaluation of the effect of surgical intervention on foot and ankle radiographic comparisons was performed. In this study, 34 sets of pre-surgical ("premortem") and post-surgical ("postmortem") foot and ankle radiographs were retrospectively evaluated simulating a postmortem identification. In each radiographic set, the films were separated by a surgical event to reproduce the effects of an alteration in the anatomy. The radiographs included both matches and mismatches. This study also presents a numerical representation of the reliability of a radiographic match following a surgical procedure. Results indicate that surgical intervention with subsequent healing does not preclude positive identification in foot and ankle radiographic comparisons.
对手术干预对足踝部X线片比较的影响进行了评估。在本研究中，回顾性评估了34组术前（“生前”）和术后（“死后”）的足踝部X线片，模拟死后身份鉴定。在每组X线片中，通过手术事件将片子分开，以再现解剖结构改变的影响。这些X线片包括匹配和不匹配的情况。本研究还给出了手术操作后X线片匹配可靠性的数值表示。结果表明，手术干预及随后的愈合并不排除在足踝部X线片比较中进行阳性鉴定。
