title: [An unusual area of injury in postmortem animal feeding beneath clothing].
abstract: The authors report on a woman who died on the age of 75 years and who was found dead in her dwelling with an extensive injury of the left thigh two days after the last sign of life. Together with the corpse a poodle was present in the dwelling. Due to the unusual localization totally beneath the clothes (trousers) and the morphology of the injury an unnatural cause of death was suspected. According to the autopsy findings and the histological results, postmortal animal scavenging caused by the poodle remained the only explanation for the injury. Supplementary DNA testing yielded final certainty.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Driever
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dettmeyer
authors.forename: Burkhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Madea
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000473:pathology; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D001344:Autopsy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000473:pathology*; D002423:Cause of Death; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000473:pathology; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004285:Dogs; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006119:Groin / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000473:pathology