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The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile?
From the first half of the twentieth century to the present day, injuries and fatalities from captive-bolt livestock stunners are a major topic in forensic medicine. The vast majority of cases account for suicides with the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital regions being the most common site...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32060624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02262-8 |
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author | Geisenberger, Dorothee Giorgetti, Arianna Glardon, Matthieu Große Perdekamp, Markus Pollak, Stefan Pircher, Rebecca |
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description | From the first half of the twentieth century to the present day, injuries and fatalities from captive-bolt livestock stunners are a major topic in forensic medicine. The vast majority of cases account for suicides with the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital regions being the most common sites of entrance (in descending order of frequency). Due to the limited length of the bolt, the corresponding wound channel within the braincase is only several centimeters long. It has been a controversial subject for a long time, whether the skin-bone complex punched out by the conically grooved end of the steel rod may act as a “secondary projectile” being propelled beyond the actual path of the bolt. To answer this question, experimental shots from various types of captive bolt-guns were fired to simulants. Video-documentation employing a high-speed motion camera showed that the punched-out pieces of skin and bone did not move further than the bolt. Thus, a secondary extension of the total wound channel could not be observed. However, the suction effect caused by the bolt’s rearward movement may induce a slight retrograde displacement of the skin-bone complex. |
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spelling | pubmed-71814292020-04-29 The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? Geisenberger, Dorothee Giorgetti, Arianna Glardon, Matthieu Große Perdekamp, Markus Pollak, Stefan Pircher, Rebecca Int J Legal Med Original Article From the first half of the twentieth century to the present day, injuries and fatalities from captive-bolt livestock stunners are a major topic in forensic medicine. The vast majority of cases account for suicides with the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital regions being the most common sites of entrance (in descending order of frequency). Due to the limited length of the bolt, the corresponding wound channel within the braincase is only several centimeters long. It has been a controversial subject for a long time, whether the skin-bone complex punched out by the conically grooved end of the steel rod may act as a “secondary projectile” being propelled beyond the actual path of the bolt. To answer this question, experimental shots from various types of captive bolt-guns were fired to simulants. Video-documentation employing a high-speed motion camera showed that the punched-out pieces of skin and bone did not move further than the bolt. Thus, a secondary extension of the total wound channel could not be observed. However, the suction effect caused by the bolt’s rearward movement may induce a slight retrograde displacement of the skin-bone complex. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-02-14 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7181429/ /pubmed/32060624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02262-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Geisenberger, Dorothee Giorgetti, Arianna Glardon, Matthieu Große Perdekamp, Markus Pollak, Stefan Pircher, Rebecca The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
title | The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
title_full | The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
title_fullStr | The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
title_full_unstemmed | The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
title_short | The punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
title_sort | punched-out tissue complex (skin-bone ”imprimatum“) in shots from captive-bolt guns: does it act as a secondary projectile? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32060624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02262-8 |
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