| Autor: |
Umesh, S. R., Raghavendra, K. M. |
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Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology; Jan-Jun2012, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p76-78, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
Major proportion of unnatural deaths resulting from asphyxia is due to fatal neck compression. Pressure on the neck may arise from hanging, manual strangulation, ligature strangulation and other means of strangulation such as direct blows, arm locks and a variety of accidental lesions including entanglement of the umbilical cord around neck. Fracture of hyoid bone and laryngeal cartilages is of practical interest to forensic pathologist as it forms one of the most valuable autopsy finding in deaths due to fatal neck compression. It has a great diagnostic criterion as the gross autopsy findings and radiological findings can be correlated to mechanical injury to neck. Only skillful dissection, radiography of neck structures and appropriate interpretation of findings will serve the purpose. Absence of proper skills and techniques shall lead to post mortem artifacts. There are lot of discrepancies among various authors regarding incidence of fracture hyoid bone and laryngeal cartilages in various forms of neck compression. Here is a study conducted in the department of Forensic Medicine MRMC, Gulbarga on neck structure specimens sent from various hospitals and primary health centers across the district focused primarily on determining incidence of fracture neck structures and its interpretation in deaths due to fatal neck compression. We studied 75 neck structure specimens over the period of three years which included 49 cases of hanging, 16 cases of ligature strangulation, 07 cases of throttling and 03 cases due to other causes of neck compression. Specimens subjected to radiography prior to dissection and findings were appropriately tabulated. Nature of fracture is determined by histopathological examination at the fracture site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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