Abstract: This article reported a 37-year-old woman who was physically attacked by her husband, which caused her leg injuries. In the hospital a diagnosis was made of fractures of the right patella and left tibia before she underwent an operation of open reduction and internal fixation. Because the husband refused to admit his family violence committed against this woman; instead he claimed that her lower limb fractures belonged to the falling injuries caused by a traffic accident. The police assigned forensic experts to judicially judge the woman’s injuries. And the identification results of X-ray and CT showed that the transverse fracture of patella had been caused by muscular violence, and that both direct and indirect force resulted in the injuries of left tibia, and the fracture of left medial orbital wall might have been formed during the violence. This article expounded the identification between the injuries of family violence and traffic accident by the applications of imaging, which emphasized the application value of imaging techniques in clinic forensic science.

Key words: forensic medicine, domestic violence, injury mechanism, tibial fracture, medial orbital wall fracture