Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 15 No. 3 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

A Retrospective Postmortem Study of Hyoid Bone Fractures in Mechanical Asphyxial Death

Shivaramu MG (Unknown)
Vijay Kumar AG (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 May 2021

Abstract

In the present study, 11 cases were belongs to 21 to 30 year age group followed by 9 cases belongs to 31-40 year age group. Among patients studied, 54% were males and 46 % were females, in 80% of the cases manner of death was hanging and in 4% of cases was strangulation and 6% of cases was throttling, out of 20 cases of hanging hyoid bone fracture (Anteroposterior compression fracture) was seen in 2 cases and out of 2 cases of strangulation hyoid bone fracture was not found and out of 3 cases of throttling, hyoid bone fracture (Inward compression fracture) was found in all cases.

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