HOMICIDE BY CERVICAL SPINAL CORD GUNSHOT INJURY WITH SHOTGUN FIRE PELLETS: CASE REPORT
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS) - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
This case present a rare forensic case of cervical spinal gunshot injury of a female by her husband, a professional hunter, during a family fight with a shotgun fire pellets. The gunshot destroyed completely the cervical spinal cord, without injury to the neck vessels and organs and with the patient survival for seven days. We discuss notions of judicial ballistics, assessment of the patient with spinal cord gunshot injury and therapeutic strategies. Even if cervical spine gunshot injuries are most of the times lethal for majority of patients, the surviving patients need the coordination of a multidisciplinary surgical team to ensure the optimal functional prognostic.
Authors and Affiliations
Dana Turliuc| PhD, Department of Neurosurgery, MD, Neurosurgery Unit II, 5PhD, Department of Pathology, Nicolae Oblu Emergency Clinical Hospital, Iasi, Romania, Serban Turliuc| PhD, Department of Psychiatry, MD, Unit II for Female Patients, Socola Psychiatry Hospital Iasi, Romania, Email: serban_turliuc@yahoo.com, Iustin Mihailov| MD, Neurosurgery Unit II, Department of Pathology, Nicolae Oblu Emergency Clinical Hospital, Iasi, Romania, Andrei Cucu| MD, Neurosurgery Unit II, Department of Pathology, Nicolae Oblu Emergency Clinical Hospital, Iasi, Romania, Gabriela Dumitrescu| PhD, Department of Pathology, Nicolae Oblu Emergency Clinical Hospital, Iasi, Romania, Claudia Costea| PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Gr.T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania
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- EP ID EP11502
- DOI 10.5958/2319-5886.2015.00190.3
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