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The Sehrt-Sign or Sehrt-Risse , now also Fritz-Sign , is a term from forensic medicine that describes a rare finding during the autopsy of a drowned person.
Accidental swallowing of large amounts of water and subsequent vomiting lead to severe overstretching of the stomach , which leads to tears in the mucous membrane , especially at the stomach entrance . These can be used as a diagnostic criterion for death from drowning, but do not have any conclusive character on their own .
It is named after the Freiburg surgeon Ernst Sehrt (1879–1952) and the Innsbruck forensic doctor Erich Fritz (1899–1989), both of whom published in 1931. Fritz will probably have priority.
Sources and individual references
- Burkhard Madea and Reinhard Dettmeyer: Basic knowledge of forensic medicine. Springer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71428-6
- ↑ Fritz E (1931): Cracks in the gastric mucosa in drowned people, a sign of drowning death. German Journal for All Forensic Medicine 18, pp. 285-96
- ↑ Sehrt E (1931): Death by drowning. Journal for Medical Training 2, pp. 484-6
- ↑ Wirth I, Geserick G: The Fritz sign: cracks in the gastric mucosa in drowned people. Forensic medicine 29 (2/2019), pp. 75-9, doi : 10.1007 / s00194-019-0297-3