Penetrating skull stab

Fatal skull stabs are rare. In the case reported here, a 28-year-old man sustained an isolated penetrating skull injury from a knife and died two days later. The bone shard with the stab puncture, which was neurosurgically removed before death, later allowed the reproducible exact assignment of the murder knife found at the scene to the stab as well as the estimation of the length of the intracranial stab channel. This, together with the findings of the formalin-fixed brain, allowed forensic reconstruction.

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Published in:
Forensic science, medicine, and pathology : FSMP
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publishing place:
Totowa, NJ
Vol.:
21
No.:
3
ISSN:
1547-769X
ISSN:
1556-2891
Pages:
1546 - 1550
Date Issued:
2025
URN:
urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2026-01015-7
DOI:
10.1007/s12024-024-00926-0
Other identifier (pubmed):
39636561
Language:
English
Type of Resource:
Text
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Keywords:
Skull; Humans; Head Injuries, Penetrating; Wounds, Stab; Forensic Pathology; Homicide; Adult; Male; Autopsy; Neuropathology; Penetrating Injury; Sharp Force
Classification:
Published version
DDC subject of DNB:
610 Medical sciences, health
DDC subject of DNB:
340 Law
Hosting institution:
Affiliated Institutes, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)

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