Hayakawa Mutsumi, Makino Yohsuke, Yajima Daisuke, Inokuchi Go, Motomura Ayumi, Chiba Fumiko, Torimitsu Suguru, Ishii Namiko, Saitoh Hisako, Iwase Hirotaro
Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan.
Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan.
Leg Med (Tokyo). 2014 Sep;16(5):300-2. doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.05.007. Epub 2014 May 24.
A 56-year-old man was hit by a car while riding a bicycle, immediately brought to the hospital, and treated. Four days after the accident, he reported abdominal pain and vomiting in the night, and he died the next day. A forensic autopsy was performed, and almost of the entire small bowel had gangrenous swelling. The mesentery was twisted 180° with clockwise rotation along the vascular axis, and pre-autopsy computed tomography scan showed a whirl sign.