title: [Bumping into a knife--exculpatory statement or (tragic) accident?].
abstract: Assessing stab wounds is a common task in forensic medicine. Quite often an accused claims that the victim bumped into the knife. Taking into account all the facts ascertained in the investigations conducted, such a statement can be rapidly disproved in most cases. The present case of a 14-year-old boy fatally wounded by his mother with a kitchen knife examines the aspect of walking into a knife. It is an example that this statement cannot always be regarded as implausible and that every single case has to be reconstructed in detail on the basis of all the investigation results.
authors: Institut für Rechtsmedizin des Universitätsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors: Nadine
authors: N
authors: Wilke
authors: Klaus
authors: K
authors: Püschel
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000293:Adolescent; D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D058734:Exsanguination / Q000473:pathology; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000473:pathology*