title: [Gun-shot fractures of the flat bones: mechanisms of development].
abstract: We studied experimental gun-shot fractures in the flat bones due to slow-speed bullets. We have found common features information of gun-shot fractures. Fragmentation of the bone tissue occurs within a Herz cone surrounded by ring-shape fissures as a result of crossing over of subsurface and median fissures. Invasion of the bullet into the bone thickness is accompanied with shift abruption of bone fragments, their parallel transfer, rotation and radial movement. In the injury with slow-speed blunt-pointed bullets the fragments move, as a rule, by parallel transfer and rotation. In the injury with sharp-pointed bullets, of a key importance is radial movement of the fragments changing characteristics of the gun-shot fracture.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Dubrovin
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Dubrovina
authors.forename: Iu I
authors.initials: IuI
authors.lastname: Pigolkin
mesh_terms: D005389:Firearms; D044709:Forensic Ballistics; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000473:pathology*