Citation

Rothschild MA, Maxeiner H. Arch. Kriminol. 1992; 189(5-6): 129-139.

Vernacular Title

Wie umfangreich kann die Verletzung des Kehlkopfes beim Selbsterdrosseln sein?

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin Freien Universität Berlin.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1642494

Abstract

Is it possible to distinguish between suicidal and homicidal strangulation by the extent of the injuries of the larynx if the results of the police investigations are uncertain? Therefore evaluation of the German publications (115 reported cases of suicidal strangulation) and our own cases (17 cases). Hereafter more intensive injuries of the neck are extremely rare in cases of self-strangulation. Casuistic: Body of a 40 years old woman with signs of strangulation. The husband declared his wife strangulated herself in the bathtub with the belt of a bathrobe. Autopsy: Typical findings of drowning, intensive injuries of the neck tissues and the larynx. Kind and extent of the findings are speaking well for an assault mainly by manual strangulation. Undepending of the medical findings the police investigations are almost excluding a suicide. Condemnation of the husband.

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