Laryngohyoid fractures in hanging victims are one of the most studied and paradoxically
contradictory topics in forensic pathology. According to literary sources, the incidence of …

Asphyxia in a forensic context refers to death by rapid cerebral anoxia or hypoxia due to
accidental or nonaccidental injury. Death due to nondrowning asphyxia can occur with …

This retrospective study was conducted on 145 postmortem cases of hanging victims at
government medical college morgue over a period of two years. The objective of this study …

Hypoxia influences different cellular biological processes. To reveal the dynamics of
hypoxia's effects on miRNA regulation in vivo, we examined the expression levels of all …

Deaths due to hanging are common among suicides. In a study on 84 cases of suicidal
hanging brought for autopsy to the mortuary of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences …

The present study was carried out between 2010 and 2013, a total of 7968 Autopsies were
conducted of which 3.31%(n–264) cases were deaths due to hanging. The most preferred …

In this study, we retrospectively analyzed 141 cases of hanging and 178 cases of ligature
strangulation recorded in the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau between January …

The objective of this study was to focus on various factors associated with suicide by
hanging at Chennai, India; with a view to identify the areas of intervention. A prospective …

Death by mechanical asphyxia is one of the most difficult conclusions to make in forensic
science, especially in corpses displaying slight or no trauma to the surface of the body …

Hanging is a form of death caused by constriction of the neck by a ligature, where the force
is derived from the gravitational drag of the victim's body weight. Hanging deaths are …