Intracranial lodgement of pellet through orbit: a novel approach of injury documentation using radiological advancement in living
Harish Agarwal, Pardaman Singh, Aparna Singhal
Keywords :
Pellet, Computed Tomography, 3D reconstruction, Injury documentation
Citation Information :
Agarwal H, Singh P, Singhal A. Intracranial lodgement of pellet through orbit: a novel approach of injury documentation using radiological advancement in living. 2023; 2 (1):36-39.
Documentation of firearm projectile is always a challenging task for forensic experts. The complexities increase manifold when it is in the cranial cavity in the living where any attempt to extract the projectile poses a serious threat to life. Here presenting a very interesting case of a shotgun firearm in a survived victim. The pellet entered the cranium through the right supraorbital fissure without fracturing any wall of the orbit/skull. The 3D reconstruction of the CT images was done with the help of software Osirix MD to visualize the tract. This case report brings out the importance of 3D reconstruction of images in the documentation of injury and ease of reproducibility of such documentation.
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