Citation

Byard RW, Bramwell NH. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1988; 9(3): 252-254.

Affiliation

Department of Pathology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3177358

Abstract

Deaths of young women due to autoerotic asphyxia have been rarely reported. The case of a 19-year-old woman is described in which several of the characteristic death-scene features found in cases of male autoerotic asphyxial deaths were absent. An awareness that this syndrome may occur among women with a less obvious presentation than in men is essential so that death will not be incorrectly attributed to nonaccidental causes. This syndrome may be more common than the number of reported cases would suggest.

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