Citation

Dada MA, Loftus IA, Rutherfoord GS. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1993; 14(1): 58-60.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8493972

Abstract

This report describes the autopsy findings in a young man who died after having been shot with a shotgun from about 30 m. Although not suspected clinically, a right middle cerebral artery territory infarct was found; its cause was shown to be a shotgun pellet embolus that had lodged just proximal to the trifurcation of the right middle cerebral artery. The case underscores the importance of performing a thorough postmortem examination, including a careful study of cerebral vasculature, in instances of brain infarction.

Language: en