title: A fatal case of shotgun injury caused by one pellet.
abstract: A 73-year-old man was shot to death due to the misjudgment of his comrade while deer hunting. There were two wounds on the victim's body. One was a gunshot wound which had perforated his left brachium and constituted the entry wound on the outer brachium and the exit wound on the axilla. The other was the re-entry wound on the axilla just on the inner side of the former exit wound. These wounds were made by one pellet from nine-pellet-type buckshot ammunition. No other gunshot injury was found.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Mutsumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Hisako
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Motani-Saitoh
authors.forename: Yayoi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kiuchi