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    Forensic Medical Evaluation of a Girl Child Severely Injured in a Pitbull Dog Attack: A Case Report
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    VOLUME: 27 ISSUE: 1
    P: 107-111
    April 2022

    Forensic Medical Evaluation of a Girl Child Severely Injured in a Pitbull Dog Attack: A Case Report

    The Bulletin of Legal Medicine 2022;27(1):107-111
    DOI: 10.17986/blm.1517
    Fatmagül Aslan 1
    Serdar Timur 1
    Hacer Yaşar Teke 2
    Zeynep Aylin Kurt 3
    1. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Adli Tıp Birimi, Antalya, Türkiye
    2. Ordu Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Adli Tıp Anabilim Dalı, Ordu, Türkiye
    3. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Kliniği, Antalya, Türkiye
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    Received Date: 03.01.2021
    Accepted Date: 08.11.2021
    Publish Date: 01.04.2022
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    ABSTRACT

    In the field of forensic medicine, injuries due to biting can be encountered in a wide range from mild to severe - even causing death. Animal bites are common nowadays and especially affect children. Although not common, such injuries draw attention with the findings of negligence and abuse, and even deliberate injury. In this study, a pediatric case who was bitten by a pitbull dog from various parts of his body, thrown by shaking and treated in intensive care was presented. It was aimed to discuss the forensic medical responsibilities of the Forensic Medicine Units in this and similar negligent injuries, especially by evaluating the case for whom opinion was requested in terms of negligence, abuse and deliberate injury due to an incision in the throat.

    Keywords: Dog bite, child, neglect

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