@article{ref1,
title="Identification of bullet holes in mummified corpse",
journal="Annali di Igiene: Medicina Preventiva e di Comunita",
year="2024",
author="Bisogni, K. S. and Magli, F. and Galassi, I. A.",
volume="175",
number="Suppl 2(4)",
pages="134-137",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The evaluation of the cause of death in a forensic context is often challenging especially when the corpse is in a severely altered state (decomposed, skeletonized, charred, dismembered, etc.), thus making it difficult to obtain an overview of the features and/or lesions suggestive of the dynamics leading to death. CASE REPORT: In this case, the corpse was partly in a state of saponification and partly in a state of mummification with signs of skeletonization. The head, trunk, arms and upper legs were mummified and almost completely dehydrated. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The use of special techniques such as the rehydration of bodies is an ancient practice. Parts of skin in different states of decomposition with the use of rehydration solution represents a useful procedure for the study of some damaging modalities, being able to identify damaged areas characterized by compression/dehydration effects, hidden by the advanced transformative state of the corpse, highlighting very damaged, in which skin normality can no longer be restored.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1120-9135",
doi="10.7417/CT.2024.5101",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5101"
}