| Use of postmortem computed tomography to reveal an intraoral gunshot injuries in a charred body. | |
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PMID: 21982878 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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A 53-year-old man was found dead after a fire at his residence had been extinguished. Although a pistol was recovered beside the body, external examination was unable to indicate any gunshot wound because of severe charring of the body. Postmortem computed tomography (CT) scan performed prior to autopsy suggested an entrance gunshot wound in the posterior pharynx with loss of soft tissue and an internal bullet path through the right anterior and posterior parts of the occipital bone. Autopsy revealed an entrance gunshot wound with hemorrhage in the soft tissue of the posterior pharynx, massive contusion of the right occipital lobe, and subarachnoid hemorrhage in the right temporal lobe, both occipital lobes and the superior surface of the left cerebellar hemisphere, thus being consistent with the findings of postmortem CT. A carboxyhemoglobin concentration of 5% in blood from the cadaver was consistent with the lack of soot deposition from the larynx to the bronchus. These observations confirmed that death had been caused by an intraoral gunshot resulting in severe brain damage, before the body had been burned. |
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Rie Sano; Satoshi Hirawasa; Susumu Kobayashi; Takehiro Shimada; Sachiko Awata; Hiroyuki Takei; Hidenori Otake; Keiko Takahashi; Youichiro Takahashi; Yoshihiko Kominato |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-10-7 |
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Title: Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) Volume: - ISSN: 1873-4162 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Oct |
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Created Date: 2011-10-10 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100889186 Medline TA: Leg Med (Tokyo) Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Legal Medicine, Gunma University, Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi 371-8511, Japan. |
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