Eight cases of suicide by self-cutting or -stabbing: Consideration from medico-legal viewpoints of differentiation between suicide and homicide

Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 127-132

  Ohshima, T ^a   Kondo, T ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOTHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL PATIENT; POLICE; STAB WOUND; SUICIDE; TOXICOLOGY; WEAPON;

EID: 0030786776     PISSN: 13531131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-1131(97)90092-4     Document Type: Review

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