Extensive and mutilating craniofacial trauma involving defleshing and decapitation: Unusual features of fatal dog attacks in the young

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-136

  Tsokos, Michael ^a   Byard, Roger W ^b   Püschel, Klaus ^c  

^a Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childhood injury; Decapitation; Defleshing; Dog attack; Pack behavior

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DECAPITATION; DOG BITE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECAPITATION; DOGS; FACIAL INJURIES; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 34547489526     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.paf.0000257395.90724.39     Document Type: Article

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