@article{ref1,
title="Symmetrical necrosis of the solitary tract nuclei as a contributory cause of death",
journal="International journal of legal medicine",
year="2001",
author="Lorin de la Grandmaison, G. and Paraire, F. and Onaya, M. and Gray, F.",
volume="115",
number="3",
pages="170-172",
abstract="A 64-year-old man died in spite of surgery 4 days after attempting suicide. He first tried to hang himself with a rope and when the hanging did not succeed, he cut his throat with a knife. The autopsy showed four sutured cervical wounds with laryngeal wounds but without associated important vascular injury. The neuropathological study revealed two watershed-type haemorrhagic infarcts, involving the left occipital lobe and the left cerebellum. It also showed a symmetrical necrosis of solitary tract nuclei in the medullary tegmentum. Such a lesion is likely to result from sudden acute transient circulatory failure and might have played a role in the secondary autonomous cardiac and respiratory dysfunctions following a non-lethal trauma.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0937-9827",
doi="10.1007/s004140100245",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004140100245"
}