Citation

Kalcioglu MT, Celbis O, Mizrak B, Firat Y, Selimoglu E. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2012; 33(2): 179-180.

Affiliation

From the Departments of *Otorhinolaryngology and †Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, İnönü University, Malatya; and ‡Department of Pathology, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0b013e318252c650

PMID

22543522

Abstract

A 31-year-old male patient with a fatal thrombosis of the internal carotid artery caused by gun shot injury was presented in this case report. The patient was referred to the hospital with a diffuse edema on his left cheek. On otolaryngologic examination, there was a bullet entrance hole at the left mandibular corpus. No exit hole could be found. The finding from his axial computed tomography of neck and paranasal sinuses was normal. On neurological examination, a dense right hemiparesis was observed. In his cerebral angiogram, left common carotid artery was totally obliterated. Diffuse ischemia was observed in the left cerebral hemisphere. Despite intensive interventions, the patient died 4 days after the accident. In the autopsy, a large thrombosis was obtained in the left common carotid artery. This case emphasizes a fatal kinetic energy effect in vascular structures. It is stressed that a gun shot injury could be fatal with its indirect kinetic energy effects at subacute phase.

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