Suicide by a power drill.
This is the report of a 62-year-old man who committed suicide by drilling through his anterior chest wall with an electric power drill. Death was caused by pericardial tamponade combined with bleeding into the pleural cavity. The skin lesion at the left hemithorax was similar to a bullet entrance wound.
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Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitätsstr 22, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. roland.hausmann@recht.imed.uni-erlangen.de
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D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000209:etiology; D006794:Household Articles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013405:Suicide; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating