Penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by bladed weapons: Three homicide cases.
Bladed weapon
Craniocerebral injury
Penetrating injury
Journal
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
ISSN: 1873-4162
Titre abrégé: Leg Med (Tokyo)
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 100889186
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2022
Nov 2022
Historique:
received:
01
07
2022
revised:
27
07
2022
accepted:
18
08
2022
pubmed:
1
9
2022
medline:
26
10
2022
entrez:
31
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Penetrating craniocerebral injuries caused by a bladed weapon are rare events in western countries and often occur in the course of assault. We studied all homicide-related cases of cranial and brain injuries caused by bladed weapons that were seen at the Medicolegal Institute of Marseille over a 5-year period from 2014 to 2019. We found that such injuries are exceptional. The majority occur in the private sphere and are inflicted by men, as they require considerable force. They are rarely isolated but are accompanied by multiple cutting injuries of the thorax and abdomen. Such assaults leave imprints on the bone that can be analyzed using new anthropological techniques.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36044807
pii: S1344-6223(22)00128-6
doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2022.102140
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
102140Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.