1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi-110001
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand-248140
3Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi-110001
4Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi-110001
5Director, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi-110001
*Address for Correspondence: Dr. Shrabana Kumar Naik, Associate Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi-110001 Phone No: 91-9891224143(M), 91-11-23408158 (O) Email: naikshrabana@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 12 June, 2014.
Bullet entering into the human body chooses its own path. Exit of bullet from the body depends upon its type, muzzle velocity, shooting distance and internal structures coming along its internal path. Exit of bullet through its own entry wound is possible theoretically, especially when wound track is short and limited by bony structure. In those circumstances, there may be atypical appearance of the external gunshot wound, posing problem to differentiate entry wound and exit wound, calculating number of bullets entered or lodged inside, besides estimating the shooting distance. The present authors had reported a fatal case of rifle firearm injury where one bullet fired from intermediate range had exited through its own entry wound, on back of the neck.
Rifled firearm, Bullet, Entry wound, Exit wound, Wound track, Atypical appearance
