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Diagnostics (Basel)
December 2024
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, "Kore" University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy.
: Firearm wounds tend to have a precise pattern. Despite this, real-world case presentations can present uncertain elements, sometimes deviating from what is considered standard, and present uncommon features that are difficult for forensic pathologists and ballistic experts to explain. : A retrospective analysis of autopsy reports from the Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Catania, covering 2019-2023, included 348 judicial inspections and 378 autopsies performed as part of the institute's overall activities.
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September 2024
Air Force En Route Care Research Center, 59th Medical Wing, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234, USA.
Critical care air transport teams (CCATTs) specialize in providing intensive medical and postoperative resuscitative care during air evacuations. In a 2014 mission, a seasoned CCATT was urgently deployed to evacuate 6 American service members with gunshot wounds. Despite only having 2 hours of premission preparation and no further injury or treatment details, CCATT secured additional equipment, medications, and blood supply.
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May 2024
Emergency Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital Main Campus Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan.
Terminal ballistics continues to struggle with bullet trajectory reconstruction and interpretation. This is a case of a young man presented with a very unusual trajectory of a bullet from the left shoulder to the brain parenchyma. The single wound and altered mentation prompted a CT head and neck scan, which revealed a retained bullet in the brain parenchyma, traversing from the left shoulder, across the neck and into the brain without causing significant damage to vital organs.
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