Death by attack from a domestic buffalo

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 102-104

  Bakkannavar, Shankar M ^a   Monteiro, Francis N P ^a   Bhagavath, Prashantha ^a   Pradeep Kumar, G ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Animal attack; Buffalo gore; Cardiac rupture; Domestic Indian buffalo; Unnatural death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BUFFALO; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTUSION; DEATH; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INDIA; INJURY SEVERITY; LACERATION; MALE; RIB FRACTURE; RURAL AREA; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA; VIOLENCE; WITNESS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BUFFALOES; FATAL OUTCOME; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLES; HORNS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC INJURIES; VENTRICULAR SEPTUM; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 73449114557     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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