Extensive petechiae in attempted self-strangulation.
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Extensive petechiae in attempted self-strangulation. / Lambe, Andrea; Püschel, Klaus; Anders, Sven.
In: J FORENSIC SCI, Vol. 54, No. 1, 1, 2009, p. 212-215.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Extensive petechiae in attempted self-strangulation.
AU - Lambe, Andrea
AU - Püschel, Klaus
AU - Anders, Sven
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A 29-year-old Korean man reported to have been robbed, bound, and gagged by a stranger in his apartment. Clinical findings included extensive petechiae to his face and tramline patterned abrasions and ligature furrows to his neck and face as well as his wrists. Initially, no other leads in the investigation existed and a robbery was assumed to have taken place. The man eventually confessed to fabricating the story and to having self-induced the ligature marks by subluxating his jaw at the temporomandibular joint and hooking the rope closest to the back of his neck on the corner of table. The man demonstrated this unsuspected ability to law enforcement officers. As a motive for his unconventional behavior, he confessed to engaging in autoaggressive behavior as punishment for "losing face" after his ex-girlfriend terminated her pregnancy. This case demonstrates that petechiae due to neck compression also may occur in the living and are due to vascular compression and not lethal hypoxia.
AB - A 29-year-old Korean man reported to have been robbed, bound, and gagged by a stranger in his apartment. Clinical findings included extensive petechiae to his face and tramline patterned abrasions and ligature furrows to his neck and face as well as his wrists. Initially, no other leads in the investigation existed and a robbery was assumed to have taken place. The man eventually confessed to fabricating the story and to having self-induced the ligature marks by subluxating his jaw at the temporomandibular joint and hooking the rope closest to the back of his neck on the corner of table. The man demonstrated this unsuspected ability to law enforcement officers. As a motive for his unconventional behavior, he confessed to engaging in autoaggressive behavior as punishment for "losing face" after his ex-girlfriend terminated her pregnancy. This case demonstrates that petechiae due to neck compression also may occur in the living and are due to vascular compression and not lethal hypoxia.
M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
VL - 54
SP - 212
EP - 215
JO - J FORENSIC SCI
JF - J FORENSIC SCI
SN - 0022-1198
IS - 1
M1 - 1
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