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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152017000200113</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Concausalidad en un caso clínico de hematoma subdural]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Concausality in a clinical case of subdural hematoma]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Iglesias]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Román]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bastidas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Daniel]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Arciniegas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Yenifer]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bastidas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gilberto]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,aff1  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Carabobo Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Escuela de Medicina]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Venezuela</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Carabobo Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Departamento de Salud Pública y Centro de Investigaciones Médicas y Biotecnológicas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Venezuela</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>34</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>113</fpage>
<lpage>117</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000200113&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000200113&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000200113&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Las ciencias forenses, a través, de su cuerpo de conocimiento, debe encaminar de manera precisa, por medio del aporte de suficientes datos, la ejecución de la leyes en función de la justicia con especial interés en homicidios concausales, donde la existencia en la víctima de una condición desconocida por el atacante agrava el efecto de su acción, que termina con la vida de la víctima. En este reporte se presenta un caso en que un traumatismo facial ocasionado en una disputa entre atacante y atacado degenera en hematoma subdural agudo con muerte súbita de este último, atribuido a debilidad intrínseca de la pared de los vasos sanguíneos y/o defecto en el grosor de la concha del temporal e incluso a la sumatoria de ambas circunstancias anatómicas. Se concluye que la experticia forense con base en la sustentación de la evidencia es clave para el establecimiento de responsabilidad de autoría de un hecho ilícito.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The forensic sciences, through its body of knowledge, must accurately direct, through the provision of sufficient data, the execution of laws in function of justice with special interest in killings, where the existence in the victim of a condition unknown by the attacker aggravates the effect of his action, which ends with the life of the victim. This report presents a case in which a facial trauma caused in a dispute between attacker and attacker degenerates into acute subdural hematoma with sudden death of the latter, attributed to intrinsic weakness of the wall of the blood vessels and / or defect in thickness the shell of the storm and even the sum of both anatomical circumstances. It is concluded that forensic expertise based on the support of evidence is key to establishing responsibility for authorship of an illegal act.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Causalidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[hematoma subdural]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[traumatismo cráneo encefálico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[medicina forense]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Causality]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[subdural hematoma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[traumatic brain injury]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[forensic medicine]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
</article-meta>
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