Elder homicide by unique combination of different mechanisms of asphyxia

Elder homicide is a fatal outcome of elder abuse and neglect. Multifactorial homicidal asphyxia in an elderly man by combination of three different mechanisms is an uncommon incident. This following case demonstrates a very unusual murder of 74-year-old man in his own residence. Crime scene visit an...

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Autor principal: Pramanik, Parthasarathi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25664272
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-516X.149249
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description Elder homicide is a fatal outcome of elder abuse and neglect. Multifactorial homicidal asphyxia in an elderly man by combination of three different mechanisms is an uncommon incident. This following case demonstrates a very unusual murder of 74-year-old man in his own residence. Crime scene visit and postmortem examination revealed that the victim was killed by combined effect of ligature strangulation, traumatic asphyxia and smothering by plastic bag.
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spelling pubmed-43181052015-02-06 Elder homicide by unique combination of different mechanisms of asphyxia Pramanik, Parthasarathi Int J Appl Basic Med Res Case Report Elder homicide is a fatal outcome of elder abuse and neglect. Multifactorial homicidal asphyxia in an elderly man by combination of three different mechanisms is an uncommon incident. This following case demonstrates a very unusual murder of 74-year-old man in his own residence. Crime scene visit and postmortem examination revealed that the victim was killed by combined effect of ligature strangulation, traumatic asphyxia and smothering by plastic bag. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4318105/ /pubmed/25664272 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-516X.149249 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Elder homicide by unique combination of different mechanisms of asphyxia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25664272
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