@article{ref1,
title="The importance of Simon's symptom in cases of hanging (author's transl)",
journal="Zeitschrift fur Rechtsmedizin",
year="1979",
author="Saternus, K. S. and Dotzauer, G. and Imhäuser, G.",
volume="83",
number="4",
pages="283-289",
abstract="Radiological and patho-anatomical investigations of the spines of 32 corpses of persons who had committed suicide by hanging revealed spine damage in 81% of the cases. The cervical spine was damaged in 69%, the lumbar spine in 56% of the cases. The typical damage of the cervical spine is a loosening of the discs at the dorsal side, usually at the level of C 4/5 to C 6/7. In the region of the lumbar spine, bleeding between the (anterior) ventral ligament and the discs is the most frequently observed damage (Simon's sy;mtpom). Simon bleeding is brought about by traction force and is not dependent on the age at death or on any existing degenerative changes of the spine.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0044-3433",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}