Fig. 11
From: Burned bodies: post-mortem computed tomography, an essential tool for modern forensic medicine
Skull images of a 53-year-old man who died by asphyxia and was found in the procubitus position in his burned house. a Linear, fine, superficial fracture of the outer table (white arrow) in an area of a thermal soft tissue loss. Notice the associated thermal epidural haematoma (asterisk). b Volume rendering reconstruction depicts more easily this fine and superficial fracture (black arrows). c The autopsy picture shows perfect concordance with the PMCT images with a linear outer table fracture of the right temporal bone (white arrowheads). Note the soft tissue damage with bone exposure