Souvenir knife: A retained transcranial knife blade

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-261

  Davis, Neil L ^a   Kahana, Tzipi ^a,b   Hiss, Jehuda ^a  

^a National Center of Forensic Medicine   (Israel)

^b Div Identification Forensic Sci   (Israel)

Author keywords

Retained foreign bodies; Souvenir knife; Transcranial injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSAULT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMA; FOREIGN BODY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; RETAINED FOREIGN BODY; SHORT SURVEY; SKULL INJURY; SOUVENIR KNIFE; STAB WOUND;

FOREIGN BODIES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 4344644839     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.paf.0000127388.00255.85     Document Type: Short Survey

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