Citation

Varga M, Takács P. Int. J. Legal Med. 1990; 104(1): 47-48.

Affiliation

Institute of Forensic Medicine, Debrecen Medical University, Hungary.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11453093

Abstract

A 21-year old centre forward died after a collision with the opposing goalkeeper during a football (soccer) match. The centre forward fell to the ground on his back and the goalkeeper fell on top of him, his knee hitting the centre forward hard in the chest and neck. There was no obvious foul and the referee did not award a penalty. The ambulance arrived too late to save the player's life. The medicolegal autopsy revealed a severe contusion of the larynx and rupture of thyroid cartilage, which resulted in hemorrhage and caused death by suffocation.

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