RealityMan
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I read the the decomposition of the brain tissue being an issue for determining how much damage was done to the Cerebrum, and has nothing to do with his abity to determine whether there was intercranial bleeding. The linings on the interior of the skull would bleed and the vessels in the brain would bleed. The qualifier is about the cerebral injuries.
I don't think the ME is qualifying only part of his findings about the gunshot wound (e.g., the cerebral injury) with the statement that "the examination of the brain tissue is somewhat limited by the decomposed nature of the remains."
The full sentence is "The wound track perforates the anterior frontal skull near the superior orbital bone and traverses the right anterior foss, without gross evidence of significant intracranial hemorrhage or apparent cerebral injury (although examination of brain tissue is somewhat limited by the decomposed nature of the remains)."
Thus, the report indicates it is not just his finding that there is no gross evidence of "cerebral injury," but also his finding that there is no gross evidence of "significant intracranial hemorrhage" that is limited by the decomposed nature of the remains.