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Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 407-410 , October 2009

Three-dimensional reconstitution of bullet trajectory in gunshot wounds: A case report

Katerina Puentes, MD (Forensic Medicine Resident)
- National Institute of Legal Medicine, North Branch, Jardim Carrilho Videira, 4050-167 Porto, Portugal
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +351 22 20 73 850; fax: +351 22 20 30 414.
Francisco Taveira, MD MSc (Forensic Medicine Resident)
- National Institute of Legal Medicine, North Branch, Jardim Carrilho Videira, 4050-167 Porto, Portugal
António J. Madureira, MD (Attending Radiologist)
- Radiology Department, Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, Porto University, Portugal
Agostinho Santos, MD PhD (Director of the Forensic Pathology Department, North Branch)
- National Institute of Legal Medicine, North Branch, Jardim Carrilho Videira, 4050-167 Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, Porto University, Portugal
Teresa Magalhães, MD PhD (Director of the North Branch)
- National Institute of Legal Medicine, North Branch, Jardim Carrilho Videira, 4050-167 Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, Porto University, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute “Abel Salazar” of Porto University, Portugal

Received 8 February 2009 ,Accepted 2 April 2009.

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