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An unusual suicide case by combination of choking and hanging
Dusan Vapa1, Radosav Radosavkic, Miljen Maletin
1Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Vojvodina, Serbia. dulevapa@yahoo.com
Abstract:
A 40-year-old man was found dead in his prison cell, hanging on a twisted bandage tightened around his neck. His permanent metal tracheostomy tube was completely corked with a piece of paper wrapped with transparent cellophane from a cigarette case. After police investigation and complete autopsy, suicide was determined as the manner of death. Although suicides by 1 form of asphyxia are relatively common, combination of several different forms of asphyxia is far less frequent. We present this unusual and very rare case of suicide by combination of 2 forms of asphyxia, that is, choking and hanging, along with autopsy findings and discussion.
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