Add to ORKGIntroduction: death resulting from plastic bag asphyxia has been recognized for more than 40 years, but relatively little is known about its epidemiology. A study about plastic bag asphyxia was performed to explain some particular aspects. Materials and methods: in the Institute of Legal Medicine of Milan, 76 cases of plastic bag asphyxia have been selected from 1993 to 2008 on a total of 17591 postmortem analyses. Results and conclusions: plastic bag suffocation shows an incidence rate of 0.4% in the context of all the lesional ways occurred in the area of Milan. This confirms the unusual use of plastic bags as a tool used in suicides. Collected data were also characterized for sex, age, victims’ patholocial and psychical profile, necros...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
This case concerns an unusual suicidal plastic bag suffocation. An elderly white man was found dead ...
Introduction: we define \u201cPlanned complex suicide\u201d (PCS) those rare, inusual and auto-suppr...
Plastic Bag Suffocation is a rare cause of death in developed countries and almost unknown in the re...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Deaths due to plastic bag suffocation or plastic bag asphyxia are not reported in Malaysia. In the W...
Asphyxial suicide by placing a plastic bag over the head, especially in combination with inhalation ...
Asphyxial deaths utilising plastic bags or wrappings occurring over a 20-year period from March 1984...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
This case concerns an unusual suicidal plastic bag suffocation. An elderly white man was found dead ...
Introduction: we define \u201cPlanned complex suicide\u201d (PCS) those rare, inusual and auto-suppr...
Plastic Bag Suffocation is a rare cause of death in developed countries and almost unknown in the re...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Death from plastic bag suffocation is unusual and rare in under-developed countries. Initially, deat...
Deaths due to plastic bag suffocation or plastic bag asphyxia are not reported in Malaysia. In the W...
Asphyxial suicide by placing a plastic bag over the head, especially in combination with inhalation ...
Asphyxial deaths utilising plastic bags or wrappings occurring over a 20-year period from March 1984...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in W...
This case concerns an unusual suicidal plastic bag suffocation. An elderly white man was found dead ...
Introduction: we define \u201cPlanned complex suicide\u201d (PCS) those rare, inusual and auto-suppr...