Muhammad Iqbal Ghani, Noman Butt, Syeda Marium Hussain, Syed Mudassar Hussain, Arif Rasheed Malik.
Pattern of Injury Sustained to the Persons Seeking Medicolegal Report at Mayo Hospital, Lahore.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(2):523.

Aim: To study the pattern of injury sustained to the persons seeking medicolegal report at Mayo Hospital, Lahore Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Mayo Hospital comprising 160 cases fulfilling the inclusion criteria from January 2014 to March 2014. Medicolegal record of the patients was collected and recorded on a pre-designed proforma. Results: Of the 160 cases, 136 (85%) related to men, and 24 (15%) to women with a 5.7: 1 male:female ratio. The age of patients ranged between 05 and 64 years . Out of total 160 injuries, 85 (53.1%) had casualities of Shajjah and subtype was shajjah khafifah. Jurh ghyre jaifah was having frequency of 50 (31.3%). Common injury in this study is shajjah-e-khafifah i.e. 53.1% and then is jurh Ghyre jaiffah i.e. 31.3%. Conclusion: Shajjah and jurh-ghyr-e-jaiffa are common in this study .

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