A Wormian Bone, Mimicking an Entry Gunshot Wound of the Skull, in an Anthropological Specimen
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Marcos Paulo Salles Machado [3] ; Márcia Pereira Simoes [3] ; Thiago de Oliveira Gamba [4] ; Isadora Luana Flores [1] ; Francisco Haiter Neto [4] ; Carlos Henrique Durao ; Eduardo Daruge Júnior [3] ; Eugénia Cunha [2]
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[1] Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Brasil
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[2] Universidade de Coimbra
Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra (Sé Nova), Portugal
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[3] University of Campinas Department of Forensic Dentistry Piracicaba Dental School Piracicaba SP CEP: 13414‐903 Brazil
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[4] University of Campinas Department of Oral Diagnosis Piracicaba Dental School Piracicaba SP Brazil
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- Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 61, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 855-857
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Wormian bones (WB) are irregular small cranial ossicles found along suture lines and fontanels. In Brazil, gunshot wounds to the skull are quite common in young individuals. Nevertheless, as far as we know, this is the first report of a WB giving an erroneous aspect of gunshot entrance due to its displacement position. The present manuscript describes the case of a Brazilian young man who died due to ballistic trauma, where a gaping bony defect on the right side of the skull was thought to be the exit wound of an injury related to the destruction found on the left side, highly suggestive of firearm injury. Thus, this case study has brought to light similarities between a traumatic lesion and an orifice of a WB, with emphasis on differential diagnosis during routine anthropological examinations
