A Self-inflicted Pneumatic Nail Gun Head Injury.
- Author:
Seong Ho KIM
1
;
Tae Gong KIM
;
In Soo SEO
;
Jae Hong JO
;
Young Shik CHOI
Author Information
1. Forensic Medicine Division, Central District Office, National Institute of Scientific Investigation, Daejeon, Korea. rivebt@nisi.go.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Craniocerebral injury;
Autopsy;
Nail gun;
Suicide, Self-inflicted injury
- MeSH:
Male;
Humans
- From:Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
2008;32(2):140-143
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A nail gun is a type of a tool used to drive nails into some kinds of hard materials. In this paper, an unusual case of intracranial penetrating nail gun injury is presented. The body of a badly charred man was found following a house fire. Autopsy revealed four intracranial nails in the occipital area. Also, tears of the stomach and diaphragm were found. Carbon monoxide saturation of a blood sample was a 5.2% and a small amount of soot was present in larynx and trachea. Subsequent investigation of the circumstance and autopsy findings strongly suggest that the deceased had shot himself in the head with a pneumatic nail gun and had died by self immolation.
