[The differential diagnosis and the identification importance of the track of the heel of stabbing-cutting weapons in skin wounds].
Data on 123 cut-stab wounds and 52 knives were examined in the course of medicolegal expert evaluation. It was found that 30 knives possessed heels which could have two forms: symmetric and asymmetric. Heel traces were seen in 16 expert evaluations (34%) in 31 wounds (25.2%) and in some of them particular features of knife blade heel were represented. Differences between butt end and heel trace according to series of signs were noted.
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D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008348:Manikins; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology
Differentsial'naia diagnostika i identifikatsionnoe znachenie sleda piatki koliushche-rezhushchikh orudiĭ v ranakh kozhi.