HUBUNGAN LAMA KEMATIAN DENGAN KERUSAKAN HISTOPATOLOGIS OTOT GASTROCNEMIUS TIKUS WISTAR

Abstract

Background: Determination of duration postmortem is really needed in many cases. There are plenty of cases involved in court. Postmortem changes which is based for duration postmortem determination is very limited. This research is expected to give valuable contribution for medicolegal interest. Methods: Using the post test only control group design, this research used Wistar rats as object. The treatment of this research was letting postmortem Wistar rats in degree of time. The output was number of Wistar rat’s necrosis gastrocnemius muscle cell. Data was described in table and picture, treated with Pearson or Spearman test and logistic analysis with SPSS 16,0 for windows program. Result: Statistic test consist of normality and correlation tests could not be done. It’s because of data constitute constanta thoroughly. Researcher got zero for each counted sample in each group. Conclusion: There was not association between duration postmortem interval with histopatological damage in Wistar rat’s gastrocnemius muscle. Big possibility that postmortem duration and microscope magnification were not adequate. Keywords: posrtmortem duration, gastrocnemius muscle damage