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Suicide With the Latest Type of Slaughterer’s Gun

Authors :
F, Ventura
C, Blasi
R, Celesti
Source :
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 23:326-328
Publication Year :
2002
Publisher :
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2002.

Abstract

The authors describe a case of suicide by a single shot to the head from the latest type of captive bolt pistol (which has lateral instead of frontal gas outlets), with the aim of finding criteria to identify correctly the lesions caused by this type of weapon correctly and to distinguish them from those caused by typical firearms.

Details

ISSN :
01957910
Volume :
23
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9dc9c3180fc0555d51386387ecd9e893