ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 July 1981
Page Count: 2

An Improved Method of Gunshot Wound Examination
Copeland, AR
Associate pathologist, Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Tex.

(Received 19 September 1980; accepted 5 November 1980)

Abstract

Examination of gunshot wounds can frequently be obscured by dried blood and other extraneous artifacts. This note describes a method that involves irrigation of the wound with commercial hydrogen peroxide (3% by volume), which enhances the wound without altering the abrasion ring or powder residues.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, wound ballistics

Paper ID: JFS11396J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11396J
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