Dog bite injuries to the hand
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[Fatal dog bite injuries].
In the absence of her parents, a girl of 4 months was killed by a 2-year old male Rottweiler dog belonging to the same family. The dog's front teeth left marks of individual, circular or scratch-like abrasions as well as slit-like severances of the skin, arranged in curved lines. The pattern of the skin-lesions largely correspond to the anatomy of the dog's set of teeth. No tissue defects (effe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2000-656X,2000-6764
DOI: 10.3109/2000656x.2011.558735