Objective:

to do a literature review to identify the medical-legal and clinic-surgical issues of TBI by FAP.

Methodology:

a review conducted by means of medical literature databases searching and data gathering published by governmental entities.

Results:

TBI by FAP is an event epidemiologically constant; and its standards are related to the presence of the armed conflicts. It is associated with clinical manifestations and severe medical complications connected with diverse variables such as type of weapons and ammunition, sex of the victims, main region of the lesion and death mechanism. If the surgical operation is not performed, the mortality in this event is very high, but if the surgery is carried out, the lesions determine the decrease of life expectancy and quality.

Conclusion:

the current Colombian armed conflict makes TBI by FAP a topic of criminological, criminalistics and medical-legal relevance.

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