Accidental hanging with delayed death in a lift

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 342-344

  Verma, S K ^a   Agarwal, B B L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BRAIN; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BUILDING; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; NECK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATHOLOGY; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; ASPHYXIA; BRAIN; ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MALE; NECK INJURIES; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033203141     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249903900412     Document Type: Article

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