An Analysis of 133 Firearm Deaths
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firearm wounds, autopsyAbstract
In a seven years study, between 1987-1993, 133 medicolegal autopsy reports of deaths due to firearm injury were rewieved and classified according to age, sex, origin, weapon type, range, characteristics and number of entrance- extrance wounds and internal tissue damage. 78.95 % of all cases were male and the rest were female. Deaths were mostly in 21-30 of age (30.08 %). Homicide was the most common origin with 66.92 %. Deaths due to firearms injuries at distant range were nearly half of the cases. % 55.64 of weapons leading to death were handguns. It was found that average entrance wound number per case was 1.49. Generally, head region was the most frequently effected area and brain was the most commonly damaged tissue.
Keywords: Firearm wounds, Autopsy.
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