Karlsmark T, Danielsen L, Thomsen H K, Aalund O, Nielsen O, Nielsen K G, Johnson E, Genefke I K
Nature. 1983 Jan 6;301(5895):75-8. doi: 10.1038/301075a0.
Reports of the use of electrical torture are usually denied, so that there is an urgent need of diagnostic methods to distinguish the consequences of electrical torture from other superficial injuries. The 'electrical group' of Anti-Torture Research (ATR) has accordingly studied the possibility of distinguishing between the sequelae of electrical and heat injury. Among the reported differences of the two types of injuries is the occurrence in epidermis, vessel walls and sweat glands of vesicular nuclei exclusively in electrically injured skin. On the basis of experiments with anaesthetized pigs, we now report that the late sequelae of electrical injury appear to include the deposition of calcium salts beneath the area of an electrical cathode.
关于使用电刑的报告通常遭到否认，因此迫切需要有诊断方法来区分电刑造成的后果与其他表皮损伤。反酷刑研究组织（ATR）的“电刑研究小组”因此研究了区分电伤和热伤后遗症的可能性。据报道，这两种损伤的差异之一是在表皮、血管壁和汗腺中，泡状核仅出现在电伤皮肤中。基于对麻醉猪的实验，我们现在报告，电伤的后期后遗症似乎包括在电阴极区域下方有钙盐沉积。
