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08-26-2012, 03:44 PM
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Hanged And Putrifying, Summer Of '03
A dead body of a middle aged man was referred to the department from one of the nearby district's hospital in the summer season of 2003. This referral was on account of an 'advanced stage of putrefaction', the body itself found hanging from a door hook in the deceased's home. It is not unusual for a forensic pathologist to encounter a victim of suicidal hanging, no lesser if the body is putrefied, but on dissection of the heart & big vessels, greyish pasty matter instead of remnants of blood were encountered. This closely resembled in respect of colour and consistency with that of the state of a putrified brain of 3-5 days post-mortem duration. The dead body of a middle aged unemployed musician was brought to our department for post-mortem examination, being referred here by doctors from a district hospital. There was history that the man was found by labourers 2 days after he allegedly hung himself from a door hook in a room with the fan running in his house, when his wife was away to a nearby town. The body was found to be suspended fully from the door hook with both feet above the ground. Relations between husband & wife were not cordial and this was his second marriage. The photographs from the scene of death showed a typical hanging scenario accompanied by an opened and tested/tasted bottle of alcohol. He had been without a job for over a year and was naturally depressed. The internal findings in the neck were of ante-mortem hanging. While exposing deep neck structures, an artery was nicked and a gush of greyish semi-liquid material exuded. Similar material was discovered in the heart too. Surprised at not finding blood in the blood vessels in the neck, any connection between the neck vessels and the brain was checked for, as the content in the vessels resembled decomposed greyish brain matter. No such communication was found. The brain was greyish and paste like, a common finding of decomposition except that it was looking similar to the material found in the big vessels and heart, whereas the blood in the upper and lower limbs was reddish in colour and fluid in consistency. This material was collected for histo-pathological analysis. The blood in the lower body portion was reddish in colour. The composition of blood, post-mortem degradation of its various constituents, microbial activity, effect of the gases of decomposition, autolysis and external factors like hot and humid currents in a hanged body where most of the blood gravitated downwards in the limbs, the remaining part of the blood in the upper part may be transformed into such a greyish pasty material. However, the exact mechanism for this transformation of intravascular blood into pasty greyish material is not mentioned in the available literature- this is the uniqueness of this artifact of blood which needs further exploration. The authors have not seen this phenomenon in any autopsy, hanging or otherwise before. *The deceased had an unusual blood phenomina in that the remaining amount in the upper body turned grey. Too technical and long-winded to add further here  1. Full view of the deceased at scene of death. Notice dark discolouration of the lower limbs below the knees and pool of blood collected at bottom of the body.  2. The deceased suspended at scene of death. The knot is on the left back side of the neck. Notice blood streaked salivary stains running over the shirt on front right.  3. The deceased lying on the autopsy table. Notice burn like effect over both lower limbs.  4. A closer view of the body with greyish putrefied brain matter collected in skull vault compared to similar fluid in the heart.  5. Comparison of contents of heart and skull cavity. The burn-like area over shin is dissected to show normal interior.   ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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08-26-2012, 03:52 PM
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Re: Hanged And Putrifying, Summer Of '03
*borrows kellyhound's pin from previous thread to pop balls*  |
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08-26-2012, 04:03 PM
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Re: Hanged And Putrifying, Summer Of '03
Ya wee minx, I wanted to pop the bawbag first  |
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08-26-2012, 07:40 PM
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Re: Hanged And Putrifying, Summer Of '03
Nice post I love the gray blood matter and how lazy the medical examiner is " Too technical and long-winded to add further here" lol
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