%0 Journal Article
%T Petechial haemorrhages as a consequence of very short
%A Slobodan Nikoli£¿
%A Vladimir £¿ivkovi£¿
%J Medicine, Science and the Law
%@ 2042-1818
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0025802417739163
%X We present the case of a 64-year-old woman who committed suicide by jumping from the open bedroom window of her second-floor apartment. However, during a head-first fall, the victim¡¯s head was caught perpendicularly between two parallel metal strands of wire, used for drying laundry, on the first-floor window. This led to a 180¡ã rotation of the body around the lower part of the neck, bringing the victim¡¯s body into the legs-first position. This chain of events also caused short-term neck strangulation, for fractions of a second or a couple of seconds, which caused rupture of the peripheral venules and apparent neck, facial and conjunctival haemorrhages, above the level of strangulation ligature ¨C the metal strands of wire. The presented case shows that even such incomplete, very short-term neck strangulation could raise venous/capillary pressure sufficiently to cause petechial haemorrhages on the neck and face above the level of ligature
%K Petechiae
%K conjunctival haemorrhages
%K facial haemorrhages
%K strangulation
%K asphyxia
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0025802417739163