Citation

Vapa D, Radosavkic R, Maletin M, Veselinovic I. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2012; 33(4): 305-306.

Affiliation

From the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Vojvodina, Serbia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0b013e31822d31c0

PMID

21897191

Abstract

A 40-year-old man was found dead in his prison cell, hanging on a twisted bandage tightened around his neck. His permanent metal tracheostomy tube was completely corked with a piece of paper wrapped with transparent cellophane from a cigarette case. After police investigation and complete autopsy, suicide was determined as the manner of death. Although suicides by 1 form of asphyxia are relatively common, combination of several different forms of asphyxia is far less frequent. We present this unusual and very rare case of suicide by combination of 2 forms of asphyxia, that is, choking and hanging, along with autopsy findings and discussion.

Language: en