Citation

Cooke CT, Cadden GA, Hilton JM. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1988; 9(4): 277-282.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Pathology, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3239544

Abstract

We describe the circumstances and medical findings of four unusual hanging deaths. In brief, the unusual features are tracheostomy, delayed death, self-mutilation combined with severe neck injury caused by lengthy drop, and homicidal hanging in a young girl.

Keywords: Suicide misclassification

Language: en