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ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2023

Can the size of the contact area body-ground influence the presence of acute pulmonary emphysema in cases of incomplete hanging?

C Castiglioni, F Lanzillotta, T Fracasso

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Article in International journal of legal medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

C CastiglioniUnit of Forensic Medicine, University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Chemin de La Vulliette 4, 1000, Lausanne, Switzerland. claudia.castiglioni@chuv.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-286X
F LanzillottaLocal Health Public Utility - "U. Parini Hospital", Via Ginevra 3, 11100, Aosta, Italy.
T FracassoUnit of Forensic Medicine, University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
Department of Public Health · USUniversity Centre of Legal Medicine · CHUniversity of Geneva · CH

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Abstract

In a recently published study, we showed that acute pulmonary emphysema (APE) was present in cases of death by incomplete hanging and absent in cases of complete hanging. This result suggested a possible role of the hanging position on the respiratory distress of these victims. To further investigate this hypothesis, in the present study, we compared cases of incomplete hanging with a small contact area between body and ground (group A) to cases of incomplete hanging with a large contact area (group B). As positive and negative control group, we investigated cases of freshwater drowning (group C) and acute external bleeding (group D) respectively. Pulmonary samples were histologically examined, and the mean alveolar area (MAA) for each group was measured by digital morphometric analysis. MAA was 23,485 μm

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DrowningHominidaeNeck InjuriesPulmonary EmphysemaSuicideAnimalsAsphyxiaHumansLungAcute pulmonary emphysemaForensic histopathologyIncomplete hangingMorphometric digital analysisSign of vitality

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