{Reference Type}: Case Reports
{Title}: Identification of bullet holes in mummified corpse.
{Author}: Bisogni KS;Magli F;Galassi IA;
{Journal}: Ann Ig
{Volume}: 175
{Issue}: 0
{Year}: 2024 Jul-Aug
暂无{DOI}: 10.7417/CT.2024.5101
{Abstract}: <B>UNASSIGNED: </B>The evaluation of the cause of death in a forensic context is often challenging especially when the corpse is in a severely altered state (decomposed, skeletonized, charred, dismembered, etc.), thus making it difficult to obtain an overview of the features and/or lesions suggestive of the dynamics leading to death.<BR><B>UNASSIGNED: </B>In this case, the corpse was partly in a state of saponification and partly in a state of mummification with signs of skeletonization. The head, trunk, arms and upper legs were mummified and almost completely dehydrated.<BR><B>UNASSIGNED: </B>The use of special techniques such as the rehydration of bodies is an ancient practice. Parts of skin in different states of decomposition with the use of rehydration solution represents a useful procedure for the study of some damaging modalities, being able to identify damaged areas characterized by compression/dehydration effects, hidden by the advanced transformative state of the corpse, highlighting very damaged, in which skin normality can no longer be restored.