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C Reiter

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[Maggot-induced postmortem changes simulating gunshot wounds].

In the warm season, human cadavers often are the breeding ground of fly larvae. In special conditions, the damage by maggots can take on the appearance of bullet holes. Preexisting injuries allow the maggots to penetrate the skin also in parts other than the body apertures commonly infested. Round tissue damage similar to gunshot-wounds are favored by the fact that the larvae of some types of flies bundle together to form feeding communities. The enzymes from the salivary glands of the fly larvae may in some rare instances even lead to perforation of bone lamellae (e.g. in the region of the orbital roofs). The case reports deal with 2 cases in which changes due to damage by maggots primarily gave the impression of gunshot-wounds.

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[Simulation of an attack by self-mutilating cuts and stab wounds].

Self-inflicted cut or stab wounds may be used by the injured to make credible a feigned assault. In such cases the alleged traces of the crime are found on the body and the clothing of the informant. Occasionally the very pattern of the injuries points to self-infliction. For example the following findings may be indicative of self-infliction: a greater number of very superficial wounds, wounds parallel or grouped, mostly located on the left side of the body (in right-handers) or symmetry in arrangement, intact clothing or lack of correspondence between wounds and damage of clothing, absence of typical defence and protection injuries. In the light of 4 cases observed from the material at hand, special features of the lesion appearance are shown and possible motives for the deed discussed.

Adolescent↗