Citation

Iten PX, Zollinger U. Arch. Kriminol. 1991; 188(1-2): 47-53.

Vernacular Title

Suicid durch Eroffnen von Gefassen unter Lokalanasthesie: risikoarme Extraktion

Affiliation

Gerichtlich-medizinischen Institut, Universität Zürich.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1953247

Abstract

Authors report an unusual suicide undertaken by a medical person who after applying the local anesthetic lidocaine, opened a leg vein with a scalpel. The cause of the suicide was presumed advanced AIDS symptoms with a progressive Kaposi sarcoma and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the toxicological investigation of the tissue we used the stomacher extraction system, a method not widely known in Forensic science, however, recommended for the extraction of all infectious tissues.

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