ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2025
Penetrating skull stab.
Article in Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Quantitative biomechanical analysis of sharp force injuries to the head using finite element simulation.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Experimental determination of the stabbing intensity in an intracranial stabbing death.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Fatal skull stabs are rare. In the case reported here, a 28-year-old man sustained an isolated penetrating skull injury from a knife and died two days later. The bone shard with the stab puncture, which was neurosurgically removed before death, later allowed the reproducible exact assignment of the murder knife found at the scene to the stab as well as the estimation of the length of the intracranial stab channel. This, together with the findings of the formalin-fixed brain, allowed forensic reconstruction.
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