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12175948

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-8-14
pubmed:abstractText
The authors report on a combined suicide of a 71-year-old farmer who fired a shot to his forehead with a livestock stunner before burning himself. As the fire was fueled by a pile of firewood it burnt for many hours, thus, causing subtotal incineration of the body. The remaining bones were calcined and reduced to a residual mass of only 3 kg. In spite of the extreme destruction, a circular bone defect corresponding to the site where the captive-bolt had entered the skull could be identified in the frontal squama. The example of this suicide is used to illustrate the problems of distinguishing between mechanical and thermal fractures. As expected, the attempted isolation and amplification of both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA for the purpose of identification was not successful.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0379-0738
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
127
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
192-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Diagnosis of a captive-bolt injury in a skull extremely destroyed by fire.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Freiburg, Albertstr. 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. bohnert@ukl.uni-freiburg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article