Diagnóstico diferencial de la tortura en restos esqueletizados: Presentación de tres casos

Abstract

While the diagnosis of torture has been primarily concentrated in the examination of living victims and cadavers, little or no work has been undertaken in skeletonised remains. This paper discusses the role of nonaccidental toracic trauma as an indicator of inflicted lesions with the aim of incapacitating but not killing certain victims of Human Rights violations. In order to illustrate differential diagnosis of injuries attributable to "torture" as well as other mechanisms three cases are presented in which could be attributed to torture and one is an exclusion of that scenario and is more consistent with a road traffic accident.