Self-inflicted long bone fractures for insurance fraud.
Forensic radiology
Insurance fraud
Long bone fractures
Self-inflicted injuries
Journal
International journal of legal medicine
ISSN: 1437-1596
Titre abrégé: Int J Legal Med
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9101456
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2019
Jul 2019
Historique:
received:
25
03
2018
accepted:
18
06
2018
pubmed:
27
6
2018
medline:
3
1
2020
entrez:
27
6
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Self-inflicted fractures simulating traffic accident represent a new social fraud opportunity for criminality. Recognising scams through an increase of awareness of existence of self-inflicted arm fractures for insurance fraud could help community health workers to report these injuries to the competent authorities. In this article, authors have recognised an unusual but consistent pattern of upper and lower limb fractures whose incidence does not coincide in numerical terms with what is reported in literature. The aim of the present study is to describe fracture patterns observed over the past 2 years. Further, authors describe clinical presentations of these fractures and attempt to define a possible mechanism of these types of injuries.
Identifiants
pubmed: 29943089
doi: 10.1007/s00414-018-1884-7
pii: 10.1007/s00414-018-1884-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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