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Suicide by an electric power drill
Fabio Monticelli1, Harald J Meyer, Thomas Keller
1Institute of Forensic Medicine and Neuropsychiatry, Paris Lodron University, Salzburg, Austria, fabio.monticelli@sbg.ac.at.
Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
|April 15, 2015
Abstract:
Suicide by means of an electric power drill with dual penetration of the anterior aspect of the thorax is described. Cause of death was a perforating injury of the heart with pericardial tamponade, combined with bleeding into the thoracic cavity caused by a perforation of the left lung. Psychiatric background revealed a long-term depression, in part with psychotic symptoms.