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Citation

Catanese CA, Gilmore K. J. Forensic Sci. 2002; 47(5): 1067-1069.

Affiliation

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City, SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Department of Pathology, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. c_catanese@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12353549

Abstract

Firearm injury in pregnant women is reported in the literature; however, no articles to date address the forensic analysis of the wounds sustained by the fetus. This is a report of a 40 weeks gestational age fetus who died following multiple perforating gunshot wounds, while his mother survived. The fetal wounds were atypical, consisting of irregular perforations with radiating linear lacerations and adjacent abrasions. The unusual wound pattern may have been due to the presence of interposed targets, the shoring of the fetus against itself and the uterine corpus, and the intrinsic character of fetal skin.

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