[Forensic medicine examinations of injuries inflicted with flat puncturing and cutting objects].

A total of 560 injuries of the skin and of clothes made of various textiles were examined. The injuries were inflicted with puncturing-and-cutting instruments with a flat section (e.g. chisel). Morphologic signs of the injury permit establishing the position of the instrument during the injury, the width of the cutting edge and thickness of the lateral surface of the instrument with which the injury was inflicted, as well as some other features of the instrument and the conditions of the injury infliction.