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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica

On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015

Abstract

SILVA RAMIREZ, Armando. Firearm suicide with the presence of a double Hoffmann sign: case report. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2021, vol.38, n.2, pp.25-29. ISSN 2215-5287.

This article presents the case of a suicide of a male, which presented two entry holes with characteristics of a contact hole in his head, two mine mouth signs, also known as Hoffman´s sign.

Keywords : Suicide; firearm; entry hole; Hoffmann's sign.

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