Muerte por Ahorcadura

Abstract

The death by hanging or suspension is generally suicidal and with less frequency accidental. The homicidal hanging is unusual, being described like mechanism to disguise the true cause of the death. The presence of vital signs allow us to distinguish between a vital suspension and another postmortal. In this paper, we are going to present images of some signs of hanging discussing its vital origin. The standardized autopsy of the neck, sometimes, does not show macroscopic signs of vitality, reason why we will have to perform histopathological studies. This is the reason why we include in this section (mainly macroscopic) microscopical images.