Ingestion of pointed objects in a complex suicide.
A 51-year-old woman with a psychiatric history of depression and drug abuse was found hanged in her bedroom. The ligature was a scarf attached to the door handle. The autopsy findings suggested that two methods of suicide had been used one after the other. In the first stage, numerous nails, pins and needles were swallowed; in the second stage, the suicide was completed by hanging.
Nadjem
Hadi
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Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Weinmann
Wolfgang
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Pollak
Stefan
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D001237:Asphyxia / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000473:pathology*; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009339:Needles; D013405:Suicide