title: Gunshot wound in skeletonised human remains with partial adipocere formation.
abstract: We present a case of skeletonised human remains. In the present case report, a body was exhumed from the ground above a cemetery. On exhumation, the body was partially-skeletonised with adipocere formation on the upper part of the body. Autopsy of the body showed two bullets in the right thigh muscle and lumbar vertebrae between L4 and L5. Postmortem changes and destruction of soft tissue made it impossible to determine direction of fire through the body, even in a careful complete autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. mnfaridah@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Faridah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mohd Nor
authors.forename: Srijit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D049249:Exhumation; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000473:pathology*