OBJECTIVE To examine whether gun assaults committed with semiautomatic pistols are more injurious and lethal than those committed with revolvers. SETTING Jersey City, New Jersey from 1992 through 1996. METHODS Using police records on fatal and non-fatal handgun assaults, t tests and chi(2) tests were employed to determine if attacks with pistols result in more shots fired than those with re...

The presence of a migratory bullet in the spinal canal after a gunshot injury is a rare finding, specially without causing permanent neurologic damage. We present the case of a patient who suffered a gunshot wound with an entry point in the posterior arc of L2-L3 and a migratory bullet detected at the level of L5-S1 in the CT scan. The patient complained about intense headache, dizziness, and v...

Detection of ethyl and methyl centralites in gunshot residues is important in forensic science due to their limited contamination from environmental sources compared to other organic residues. However, the vibrational frequencies of centralites are little explored and their frequency assignments are incomplete. Herein, we investigated vibrational frequencies of centralites based on Density func...

Gunshot residue (GSR) is an important type of forensic trace evidence produced when a firearm discharged. Currently, inorganic GSR particles are used for establishing the fact shooting. The organic gunshot (OGSR) has been recently shown to have great potential providing additional information vital crime scene investigation. Smokeless powder precursor OGSR and one its chemical components. In th...

BACKGROUND To present a patient with an indirect blast rupture of the head of pancreas, as well as with a blast contusion of the duodenum following abdominal gunshot injury. CASE REPORT A patient with the abdominal gunshot injury was submitted to the management of the injury of the liver, gaster and the right kidney in the field hospital. The revealed rupture of the head of the pancreas and t...

During a 15-year period from August 1964 to August 1979, 48 patients with gunshot wound of the esophagus (24 of the cervical, 17 of the thoracic, and seven of the abdominal) were treated at Grady Memorial Hospital. In the majority of the patients, the initial history, physical findings, and chest roentgenograms were nondiagnostic for esophageal injury. Esophageal perforation was mainly suspecte...