[Biomechanical-clinical interpretation of firearm wounds. General problems. XI. Propedeutic ABC of terminal ballistics].
The pathogenetic potentiality of firearms differs in relation to whether we are dealing with rifled long-barrelled weapons, handguns, or smooth-bore long-barrelled guns. Up until a few years ago, the tissue-damaging effect, at least in the modern warfare context, of short-barrelled or smooth-bore long-barrelled firearms, was thoroughly negligible; today, however, their impact, as causes of wounds and death, is steadily increasing, and for the first time small bullets designed for low-cost military training are also coming to play a primary role on the battlefield. At the same time short-gun bullets are appearing which, which in the name of "stopping power" seem to contradict the very definition of a handgun. The smooth-bore long-barrelled gun, in turn, is casting off the anti-humanitarian image of the trench gun to play the more suggestive ordinance role of the grenadiercumhunter.
Marini
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F
Istituto di Patologia Speciale Chirurgica e Propedeutica Clinica, Università di Verona.
Radin
S
S
Carolo
F
F
Mangiante
G
G
Dagradi
V
V
Della Giacoma
G
G
Tenci
A
A
Giarolli
M
M
Massari
S
S
Merico
G
G
D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005389:Firearms; D006801:Humans; D014857:Warfare; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000503:physiopathology
Lettura biomeccanico-clinica della ferita d'arma da fuoco. Problematica generale (Parte XI). Abbecedario di propedeutica alla balistica terminale.