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Citation

Harada K, Asa K, Imachi T, Yamaguchi Y, Yoshida K. J. Forensic Sci. 1999; 44(4): 849-850.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10432619

Abstract

We here report the first case of postmortem injury caused by a centipede. An old man was found dead in his bedroom. The death was estimated to be due to intracranial hemorrhage and to have occurred two days before the police inspection. A centipede about 12 cm long emerged from a subcutaneous cavity on the victim's forearm. Obviously, the centipede had dug the cavity on the intact skin. A police inspector was bitten by the centipede, so he stepped on the centipede on the floor. The exudate from the insect was identified to be derived from the victim's blood.


Language: en

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