Abstract
ABSTRACT Received: Revised: Accepted: 2014–04–03 2014–04–28 2014–05–01 In this case report, the morphological findings associated with a firearm injury was examined within the context of wound ballistics observed during the necropsy of an 11 month - old mixed breed female dog. Initially, it was submitted to Department of Pathology, Ankara University, Turkey with the complaint that she had been bitten and killed in a fight. It was completely understood that she had been killed with firearm. It was evaluated and tried to detect the type of gun, used in firing, the entrance angle and location to the body of the bullet, mean distance between gun and body, followed course in the body after firing, damages caused in organs. Histopathologically, lesions in affected tissues and organs caused by bullet were evaluated. It was aimed to draw attention to the forensic pathology of these types of events and injuries that are occasionally encountered in animals.
Highlights
University, Turkey with the complaint that she had been bitten and killed in a fight
Key Words : Dog, Firearms, Pathomorphology, Wound Ballistic completely understood that she had been killed with firearm
It was evaluated and tried to detect the type of gun, used in firing, the entrance angle and location to the body of the bullet, mean distance between gun and body, followed course in the body after firing, damages caused in organs
Summary
University, Turkey with the complaint that she had been bitten and killed in a fight. The bullet entered the body from the right side of the thorax, pierced the crus of diaphragm through the intercostal space between the 3rd and 4th ribs, passed into the abdominal cavity, scraped the caudate lobe of the liver, and ended its trajectory in the cardia region of the stomach; there was no exit point.
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