Penetrating traumatic brain injury

Discussion:

Man executed with a handgun shot to the head at very close range.

The trajectory from the top to downward is not typical for a suicide (best depicted on sagittal images).

The bone table inward or outward beveling is typically indicative of the entry or exit wound respectively. In this case, outward beveling (i.e. exit wound) was not present, because the bullet dissipated completely its kinetic energy crossing all skull structures. Thus the bullet had no more energy to break down the posterior bone wall of the skull. Line fractures and their features also give a lot of information about the first bone fracture according to the Puppe’s rule.

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