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Blow Holes - A Surgical Artefact
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Post-mortem artefacts are commonly encountered in forensic practice. They are sometimes very confusing for forensic experts to interpret and wrong interpretation may mislead the course of justice. A case is presented where a patient developed severe subcutaneous emphysema after a road traffic accident and was treated with multiple subcutaneous bilateral "blowhole" incision on the chest and upper part of abdomen. Confusion arose on autopsy about injuries whether they were therapeutic or homicidal in origin.
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Subcutaneous Emphysema, SE, Blow Holes, Surgical Incised Wounds
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