Citation

Meir PB, Sagi A, Ben Yakar Y, Rosenberg L. Burns 1990; 16(4): 257-258.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery, Soroka University Hospital, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2257067

Abstract

Of 5934 patients admitted to our Burns' Unit at the Soroka University Hospital, Beer-Sheva, Israel between the years 1965 and 1986, 22 had attempted suicide by fire (0.37 per cent). Seventeen of them (77 per cent) died from their burns. The use of flammable liquids was the most common method of immolation. Fifty per cent of the victims were known to have previous mental disorders.

Language: en