Unusual injuries on the right hand and forearm caused by unidentified wild animals

Legal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 301-305

  Kiuchi, Takayuki ^a   Matoba, Kotaro ^a   Terazawa, Koichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal predation; Footprint; Postmortem injury; Weasel; Wild animal

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BITE; CASE REPORT; DROWNING; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; PREDATION; WILD ANIMAL;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BITES AND STINGS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FOREARM INJURIES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 51049108115     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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