Surviving a transfixing gunshot wound to the head 70 years ago

Patricia Shirley de Almeida Prado1, Sérgio Ricardo Marques2, Yara Vieira Lemos3, Eugénia Cunha4
1Department of Biomorphology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40110-902, Brazil
2Department of Morphology and Genetic, Discipline of Topographic and Descriptive Anatomy, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 04023-900, Brazil
3Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Legal Medicine Institute, Civil Police, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31630-903, Brazil
4Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000456, Coimbra, Portugal

Tóm tắt

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Cunha E, Pinheiro J. Bone pathology and antemortem trauma. In: Siegel JA, Saukko PJ, editors. Encyclopedia of forensic sciences. 2nd ed. Waltham: Academic Press; 2013. p. 76–82.

SWGANTH Scientific working group for forensic anthropology. 2011. www.swganth.org.index.html . Accessed Dec 2016. (now disabled).

Cunha E, Pinheiro J. Ante mortem trauma. In: Blau S, Ubelaker D, editors. Handbook of forensic anthropology and archaeology. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press; 2016. p. 322–45.

Calhoun KH, Li S, Clark WD, Stiernberg CM, Quinn FB. Surgical care of submental gunshot wounds. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1998;114:513–9.

Kriet JD, Stanley RBJ, Grady MS. Self-inflicted submental and transoral gunshot wounds that produce nonfatal brain injuries: management and prognosis. J Neurosurg. 2005;102:1029–32.

Ortner D. Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains. 3rd ed. San Diego: Academic Press; 2003.

Kranioti E. Forensic investigation of cranial injuries due to blunt force trauma: current best practice. Res Report Forensic Med Sci. 2015;5:25–37.

Gerstenfeld LC, Cullinane DM, Barnes GL, Graves DT, Einhorn TA. Fracture healing as a post-natal developmental process: molecular, spatial, and temporal aspects of its regulation. J Cell Biochem. 2003;88:873–84.