Pathologic features of suicidal complete decapitations

Forensic Science International

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 95-102

  Tsokos, M ^a   Turk E E ^a   Uchigasaki, S ^a   Puschel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decapitation; Hanging; Railway; Subendocardial hemorrhage; Suicide; Wound pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECAPITATION; ENDOCARDIAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN ABRASION; SUICIDE; WOUND;

EID: 1042287402     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2003.09.020     Document Type: Article

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