Citation

Kutluhan S, Baydar L, Sezgin BY, Demirci S, Ozden A, Yavuz L. Nobel Medicus 2011; 7(1): 109-111.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011)

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Abstract

Suicidal hangings usually result in death. Sometimes the hanging attempts were finished incomplete namely near hanging. Dissection and occlusion in variable degree of internal carotid artery (ICA) result in neurologic complications due to cerebral hypoxia and anoxia in the near hanging. These are hemiplegia, paraplegia, quadriplegia, choreic movements, Korsakoff syndrome, retrograde amnesia, epilepsy. This case report describes a cerebral infarction due to the left ICA occlusion by atherosclerotic thrombosis in a patient with near hanging.

Language: tr

Keywords

adult; human; Suicide; male; case report; suicide attempt; hanging; article; disease association; brain infarction; intensive care unit; emergency ward; computer assisted tomography; Doppler echography; vocal cord paralysis; cervical spine radiography; outcome assessment; hemiparesis; dysphonia; cortisone; ecchymosis; Thrombosis; Near hanging; facial nerve paralysis; laryngoscopy; magnetic resonance angiography; brain angiography; carotid atherosclerosis; Cerebral infarction; Internal carotid artery; internal carotid artery occlusion; middle cerebral artery