Citation

Kodikara S, Alagiyawanna R. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2011; 32(3): 260-262.

Affiliation

From the *Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya; †Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya; and ‡General Hospital, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0b013e3182186fac

PMID

21464693

Abstract

Accidental hanging is rare across all age groups, and it is even rarer in the adult population except in autoerotic asphyxia. Few cases have been reported in the literature, which describe unusual patterns of accidental hanging. This article focuses on an unusual pattern of accidental hanging of a 25-year-old man, who was in a state of morphine-induced central nervous system depression and found dead in a sitting position with the collar of his T-shirt hanging off a jutting-out root of a tree. The hanged collar acted as a ligature compressing the neck.

Language: en