Muertes por arma de fuego y disparo intraoraletiología medicolegal

  1. Enrique Dorado-Fernández
  2. Eduardo Andreu-Tena
  3. Concepción Magaña-Loarte
  4. Elisa Ruiz-Tagle Fernández
  5. David Cáceres-Monllor
  6. José Luis Souto López-Mosquera
  7. Andrés Santiago-Sáez
Revista:
Revista española de medicina legal: órgano de la Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses

ISSN: 0377-4732

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 43

Número: 2

Páginas: 70-78

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.REML.2016.11.002 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Revista española de medicina legal: órgano de la Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses

Resumen

Investigation of deaths caused by the use of firearms, with their different homicidal, suicidal and accidental etiologies, is part of the medical-forensic expert's regular work. Mouth is usually chosen by the suicide using a gun. However, gunshot rarely occurs -or it is an exception, in homicidal or accidental deaths. In this paper we shall review the different variables which are useful in order to discriminate the different etiologies, such as the scene, the kind of weapon used, the number of injuries sustained and their location, or the direction of the bullet. Also, we shall particularly focus on the types of injuries caused. The way that lips, teeth and tongue are affected is of particular interest in this investigation. For this purpose, we have conducted a research in books and medical articles, including the PubMed, Dialnet y Academic Google bibliographic database.

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