Tissue defect at the gunshot entrance wound: What happens to the skin?

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 217-222

  Grosse Perdekamp M ^a   Vennemann, B ^a   Mattern, D ^a   Serr, A ^a   Pollak, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bullet track; Entrance hole; Gunshot wound

Indexed keywords

GELATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULLET; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INJURY; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; SKIN; SWINE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 21744450881     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-005-0542-z     Document Type: Article

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