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Analysing gunshot wounds is one of the many roles of forensic medicine. The preceding chapters have shown clearly that the multiplicity of physical parameters and effects renders forensic analysis of such wounds quite complex. The short duration of the processes involved (a bullet wound occurs within a few milliseconds) plays a decisive role here.
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Rothschild, M.A., Thali, M.J., Kneubuehl, B.P. (2022). Wound ballistics and forensic medicine. In: Kneubuehl, B.P. (eds) Wound Ballistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64855-1_5
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