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- Title
A Retrospective Postmortem Study of Hyoid Bone Fractures in Mechanical Asphyxial Death.
- Authors
M. G., Shivaramu; A. G., Vijay Kumar
- Abstract
In the present study, 11 cases were belongs to 21 to 30 year age group followed by 9 cases belongs to 31-40 year age group. Among patients studied, 54% were males and 46 % were females, in 80% of the cases manner of death was hanging and in 4% of cases was strangulation and 6% of cases was throttling, out of 20 cases of hanging hyoid bone fracture (Anteroposterior compression fracture) was seen in 2 cases and out of 2 cases of strangulation hyoid bone fracture was not found and out of 3 cases of throttling, hyoid bone fracture (Inward compression fracture) was found in all cases.
- Subjects
HYOID bone; BONE fractures; COMPRESSION fractures; HANGING (Death); AGE groups; AUTOPSY
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 3, p4274
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37506/ijfmt.v15i3.15964