Citation

Lorin de la Grandmaison G, Paraire F, Onaya M, Gray F. Int. J. Legal Med. 2001; 115(3): 170-172.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s004140100245

PMID

11775022

Abstract

A 64-year-old man died in spite of surgery 4 days after attempting suicide. He first tried to hang himself with a rope and when the hanging did not succeed, he cut his throat with a knife. The autopsy showed four sutured cervical wounds with laryngeal wounds but without associated important vascular injury. The neuropathological study revealed two watershed-type haemorrhagic infarcts, involving the left occipital lobe and the left cerebellum. It also showed a symmetrical necrosis of solitary tract nuclei in the medullary tegmentum. Such a lesion is likely to result from sudden acute transient circulatory failure and might have played a role in the secondary autonomous cardiac and respiratory dysfunctions following a non-lethal trauma.

Language: en

Keywords

Aged; Brain Stem Hemorrhage, Traumatic; Cause of Death; Humans; Male; Neck Injuries; Necrosis; Solitary Nucleus; Suicide