@article{ref1,
title="Petechial haemorrhages as a consequence of very short-term strangulation during suicidal fall from a height: case reconstruction",
journal="Medicine, science, and the law",
year="2018",
author="Zivković, Vladimir and Nikolic, Slobodan",
volume="58",
number="1",
pages="62-66",
abstract="We present the case of a 64-year-old woman who committed suicide by jumping from the open bedroom window of her second-floor apartment. However, during a head-first fall, the victim's head was caught perpendicularly between two parallel metal strands of wire, used for drying laundry, on the first-floor window. This led to a 180° rotation of the body around the lower part of the neck, bringing the victim's body into the legs-first position. This chain of events also caused short-term neck strangulation, for fractions of a second or a couple of seconds, which caused rupture of the peripheral venules and apparent neck, facial and conjunctival haemorrhages, above the level of strangulation ligature - the metal strands of wire. The presented case shows that even such incomplete, very short-term neck strangulation could raise venous/capillary pressure sufficiently to cause petechial haemorrhages on the neck and face above the level of ligature.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0025-8024",
doi="10.1177/0025802417739163",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802417739163"
}