COMBINATION OF LOWER EXTREMITY TRAUMA AND OSGOOD-SCHLATTER DISEASE IN FORENSIC PRACTICE

Abstract

In forensic medical practice, pathological conditions are often identified that are discovered by chance, more often during commission or complex examinations. Such findings are subsequently assessed by the victims as the action of an external mechanical factor. The papper presents an expert case of detection of a disease of the musculoskeletal system at X-Ray and MRI examination of the knee joint in the presence of blunt trauma of the lower extremity in the anamnesis. Also, tactical medical failure in providing traumatologic care, which led to suppuration of hematoma with subsequent development of osteomyelitis of the tibia. The detected Osgood-Schlatter disease did not manifest itself in any way in the normal life of the child, which required the establishment of a causal relationship of the trauma with the revealed pathology.