Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
| Description | Inlet and Outlet of a Bullet |
| Author | Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology |
| Copyright | Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine |
400 - There are 2 pieces of skin; the lower one is taken from the back of a victim and it contains inlet of a bullet appearing in the form of a very small, rounded and regular hole; the upper one is taken from the anterior chest wall/in front of the sternum (hairy), which contains the exit of the bullet, appearing in the form of irregular wider hole. The exit in this case was wider than expected and with more loss of substance due to the fact that the bullet passed in the sternum, smashing it, before coming out from the skin exit; and so the smashed fragments of the sternum came out with the missile resulting in this large irregular exit