Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

70- Anterior Abdominal Wall


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Description Anterior Abdominal Wall
Author Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Copyright Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine

70- Is showing a wide piece of skin taken from the anterior abdominal wall, with arborisation lines of putrefaction (i.e. marbling), which is due to distension and discoloration of the subcutaneous blood vessels with the Putrefactive gases. This change takes about 2 days in winter to occur after death.

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