Citation

Wankhede AG. Forensic Sci. Int. 2007; 171(1): e21-3.

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur 440018, Maharashtra, India. ashesh1969@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.06.009

PMID

17630241

Abstract

It is the first reported case, in which death occurred due to asphyxia by choking in a victim of throttling. When an alcoholic hemophilic patient was throttled, he became unconscious. On regaining consciousness he died after approximately 16 h due to sub-mucosal collection of extravasated blood which blocked his upper respiratory tract. This paper stresses this unique danger of trauma to neck in hemophilic patients.

Language: en