Citation

Plant JR, Butt JC. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1993; 14(1): 61-64.

Affiliation

Chief Medical Examiners Office, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8493973

Abstract

An historic case of a boxing death (c. 1913) was reviewed, since the cause of death given at the time is now deemed incorrect. Using current literature on traumatic basal subarachnoid hemorrhage, the cause of death is now hypothesized to have been a tear in the right vertebral artery associated with hyperextension and rotation of the neck.

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