Mechanical asphyxia by three different mechanisms

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 110-111

  Lupascu, Ciprian ^a   Lupascu, Christian ^b   Beldiman, Daniela ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LEGAL MEDICINE MINA MINOVICI   (Romania)

^b GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Manual strangulation; Smothering; Traumatic asphyxia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ASPHYXIA; ASSAULT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEATH; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUTH; NECK INJURY; NOSE; SKIN BRUISING; STRANGULATION; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRAUMATOLOGY; VICTIM;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BRONCHI; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LARYNX; NECK INJURIES; RIB FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 0037492406     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(03)00043-9     Document Type: Letter

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