Download University of Jaffna MBBS 2012 January Forensic Medicine Question Paper

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UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA, SRI LANKA SECOND
EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL DEGREES JANUARY 2012
FORENSIC MEDICINE Paper II


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Date: 31.012012.
Time: 03 hours
ANSWER ALL THE FIVE QUESTIONS


1.
1.1. List the indications to order an Inquest.
(40 Marks)
1.2. What are the preconditions to do a pathological postmortem
examination?
(30 Marks)
1.3. How will you write a proper cause of death? Explain by giving an
example.
(30 Marks)


2.
You are called upon to conduct a postmortem examination on a body
found floating in a river.

2.1. What are the medico legal issues in this case?
(50 Marks)
2.2. What are the possible causes of death in this case?
(50 Marks)


3.
3.1. What is criminal abortion?
(30 Marks)
3.2. Explain what are the complications and causes of death following
criminal abortion?
(70 Marks)

4.
Police has produced a 14 year old girl, said to be sexually abused for
medico legal examination.
4.1. Briefly describe how will you proceed with examining this patient? (50 Marks)
4.2. How will you interpret the examination findings of the hymen?
(50 Marks)

5.
Write the medico legal importance of the following:
Hypostasis
(30 Marks)
Extradural haemorrhage
(30 Marks)
Examination of the scene of death in a case of death due to hanging. (40 Marks)


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