Suicide by severing blood vessels using local anesthesia: reduced risk in extraction of HIV infected tissue using a stomacher |
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Authors: | P X Iten U Zollinger |
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Institution: | Gerichtlich-medizinischen Institut, Universit?t Zürich. |
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Abstract: | Authors report an unusual suicide undertaken by a medical person who after applying the local anesthetic lidocaine, opened a leg vein with a scalpel. The cause of the suicide was presumed advanced AIDS symptoms with a progressive Kaposi sarcoma and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the toxicological investigation of the tissue we used the stomacher extraction system, a method not widely known in Forensic science, however, recommended for the extraction of all infectious tissues. |
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