Citation

Banaschak S, Bajanowski T, Brinkmann B. Int. J. Legal Med. 2000; 113(3): 162-163.

Affiliation

Institute of Legal Medicine, Münster, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10876988

Abstract

Deaths due to hyperglycemic and hyperosmolar coma in diabetics are usually disease-related. In the exceptional case reported here there was evidence for an intentional ingestion of a sugar solution, the person was a diabetic and known to be depressive suggesting a suicidal intention. The autopsy findings were inconspicuous and only further laboratory findings led to the final diagnosis.

Language: en