Deaths from abdominal trauma: analysis of 1888 forensic autopsies.

Objective: to evaluate the epidemiological profile of deaths due to abdominal trauma at the Forensic Medicine Institute of Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil.

Methods: we conducted a retrospective study of the reports of deaths due to abdominal trauma autopsied from 2006 to 2011.

Results: we analyzed 1.