TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - High-velocity gunshot wounds to the head and neck: a review of wound ballistics
JO  - Military medicine
A1  - Yetiser, Sertac
A1  - Kahramanyol, M.
SP  - 346
EP  - 351
VL  - 163
IS  - 5
N2  - Patients who sustain gunshot injuries to the head and neck face heavy tissue damage and eventually life-threatening conditions. A very significant factor that determines the degree of injury is the course and extent of the missile track. The missile track is well correlated with bullet structure, size, and velocity, which have distinct features in civilian and military firearm injuries. The missile entrance or exist wound may be out of sight in some injuries, and often it is difficult to predict the severity of the injury in the chaotic circumstances of the battlefield. We studied the wound ballistics in five soldiers who suffered penetrating cranial and cervical firearm injuries.
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SN  - 0026-4075
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -