Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
| Description | Complete Skull with the Mandible of a male |
| Author | Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology |
| Copyright | Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine |
261 - Is showing a complete skull with the mandible of a male victim above 40 years (the coronal suture is united). There is a vertical cut fracture in the left zygomatic region and the left angle of the mandible causing its fracture. It was due to trauma with a heavy sharp instrument as axe or grubber.
There is bone erosion around the fracture in the mandible denoting sepsis and death of the victim after about 4 to 6 weeks from septic complications.