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Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report
In times of peace and except for terrorist attacks, fatalities by explosions are rare. Fireworks have deadly potential, especially self-made or illegally acquired devices. The use of professional pyrotechnics by untrained persons poses a life-threatening hazard. We present a case of devastating blun...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9823255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36609734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02943-6 |
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author | Hunold, Thomas Wittschieber, Daniel Ortmann, Christian Niederegger, Senta Eckardt, Niklas Mall, Gita Muggenthaler, Holger |
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description | In times of peace and except for terrorist attacks, fatalities by explosions are rare. Fireworks have deadly potential, especially self-made or illegally acquired devices. The use of professional pyrotechnics by untrained persons poses a life-threatening hazard. We present a case of devastating blunt force and blast injuries to the head and chest of a young man. After ignition of a display shell (syn. a real shell or mortar shell) without the use of a launching pipe, the device hit the man’s face, nearly simultaneously followed by the explosion of the burst charge. The autopsy revealed injuries to the face and forehead as well as extensive tissue structure damage and a massive contusion with a bloody edema of the lungs. Autopsy results are supplemented with CT imaging and 3D reconstruction of the fractured mid face, as well as histological and toxicological examinations. This case of a misused display shell demonstrates both its devastating destructive potential and the corresponding and rarely observed injury pattern. |
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spelling | pubmed-98232552023-01-09 Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report Hunold, Thomas Wittschieber, Daniel Ortmann, Christian Niederegger, Senta Eckardt, Niklas Mall, Gita Muggenthaler, Holger Int J Legal Med Case Report In times of peace and except for terrorist attacks, fatalities by explosions are rare. Fireworks have deadly potential, especially self-made or illegally acquired devices. The use of professional pyrotechnics by untrained persons poses a life-threatening hazard. We present a case of devastating blunt force and blast injuries to the head and chest of a young man. After ignition of a display shell (syn. a real shell or mortar shell) without the use of a launching pipe, the device hit the man’s face, nearly simultaneously followed by the explosion of the burst charge. The autopsy revealed injuries to the face and forehead as well as extensive tissue structure damage and a massive contusion with a bloody edema of the lungs. Autopsy results are supplemented with CT imaging and 3D reconstruction of the fractured mid face, as well as histological and toxicological examinations. This case of a misused display shell demonstrates both its devastating destructive potential and the corresponding and rarely observed injury pattern. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9823255/ /pubmed/36609734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02943-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Case Report Hunold, Thomas Wittschieber, Daniel Ortmann, Christian Niederegger, Senta Eckardt, Niklas Mall, Gita Muggenthaler, Holger Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
title | Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
title_full | Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
title_fullStr | Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
title_short | Blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
title_sort | blunt force trauma and blast injuries to head and chest caused by a potent pyrotechnic device: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9823255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36609734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02943-6 |
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