Atypical gunshot and blunt force injuries: wounds along the biomechanical continuum

Brian F. Spatola

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The purpose of trauma analysis in forensic anthropology is to determine the mechanism and timing of bone trauma and to address other related medicolegal problems. By applying principles of biomechanics bone trauma can often be classified as arising from sharp force, blunt force, or gunshot trauma and in so doing serve an important role in guiding medicolegal death investigations. The use of descriptive anatomical and biomechanical terminology is often more useful for conveying the appearance, location, and characteristics of confounding or equivocal injuries. This chapter presents four documented medicolegal (n = 3) and historical (n = 1) cases of atypical cranial vault injuries from the collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) that emphasize the importance of balancing the typological approach to trauma analysis required to support medicolegal investigation with the variation in wound production associated with a biomechanical continuum as described by Kroman (2007, 2010).

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