Shotgun Injuries

Extensive splitting of the facial skin and soft tissues from an intraoral placement and discharge of a 12 gauge shotgun.

Slightlydistant shotgun wound. This photograph shows a large, dominant, central defect with smaller satellite defects surrounding it.

Shotgun wound due to buckshot, with stippling due to granulated plastic buffer-filler.

Detail of lesion in the deltoid region by firing a shotgun at close range.

Close-range shotgun wound. This photograph shows a single defect with ragged, scalloped edges and a few satellite defects.

Distant shotgun wound with multiple, evenly distributed defects due to bird-shot.

Injury in the face by a shotgun trigger input.

Injury input firing shotgun leaning.

Irregular wadding mark (abrasion) at the periphery of a close-range shotgun wound.

Injury input firing shotgun leaning.

Shotgun victim

Shotgun fatality, close range.