title: [Analysis on the characters of injuries in body surface and deduction of injury-causing instruments in 146 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the deduction of injury-causing instruments and its value as judicial evidence.
  
  
  METHODS
  To collect 146 cases involved in injury-causing instruments deduction, which accepted by Judicial Appraisal Center of Wannan Medical College during the period from 1998 to 2007, then to deduce the instrument by analyzing the characters of injuries in body surface. The accuracy of those deductions was evaluated by comparing the deduced instruments with the actual instruments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The deduction from sharp injuries was more accurate than that from blunt injuries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sometimes the result of deduction about injury-causing instruments are uncertain, it may be accepted as judicial evidence when supported by other evidences.
authors.affiliation: Fujian Zongzheng Forensic Judicial Appraisal Institute, Fuzhou 363100, China.
authors.forename: Wang-Gen
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000473:pathology*; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000473:pathology*