title: [Forensic-medical significance of the characteristics of gunshot perforating fractures of the skull bones].
abstract: The study was made of gunshot perforating fractures of calvarial bones in cases of lethal perforating head wounds in long distance shots from a 9-mm Makarov gun. Morphological characteristics of inlet and outlet perforating fractures and bone fragments were found to differ. Gunshot fractures in calvarial bones inflicted by bullets from a 9-mm Makarov gun were studied in experiments with different kinetic energy. In low kinetic energy, bullets make oval holes on the outer table of the skull and round holes on the inner table with radial prominences on the walls of bullet channels, large bone fragments; in moderate kinetic energy--make round holes in the outer table and oval on the inner table with skew prominences on the walls of the outlet part of the channels, large and middle-sized flat bone fragments; in high kinetic energy injuries on both tables were round, prominences were cross, bone fragments were flat, small and middle-sized.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Dubrovin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005389:Firearms; D044709:Forensic Ballistics; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*