[Forensic medicine aspects of death caused by hypothermia in high altitude].
Macro- and micromorphological findings in cases of death from hypothermia are very questionable and unreliable diagnostical signs. We investigated 42 cases of death from hypothermia that occurred in mountain-ranges between 1974 and 1990. All cases showed erosions of the gastric mucosa ("Wischnewsky-spots"), in one case only we found bleedings in the ileopsoas muscles. In most cases hypothermia was based on natural disease or intoxication. Nine alcoholized persons showed a mean alcohol concentration in the blood of 1.07% and in accordance to a relatively long agonal period the alcohol concentration in urine was considerably higher.
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D000059:Accidents / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D000328:Adult; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000473:pathology*; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
Gerichtsmedizinische Aspekte des Unterkühlungstodes in höheren Lagen.