Duret haemorrhage: An unusual finding in compression of neck structures

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Tanuj Kanchan, Alok Atreya

Abstract

Hanging is one of the most lethal methods of suicide, where survival is an obvious rarity. Those who survive the initial act of hanging mostly suffer from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and show some form of neurological damage. Intracranial haemorrhages are rarely associated with hanging. We report the first case of Duret haemorrhages in a 58 years old victim who survived for 8 days after the attempted hanging. Duret haemorrhage is mostly associated with fatal outcome. It is thus implied that cerebral edema should be brought under control at the earliest to prevent transtentorial herniation and subsequent Duret haemorrhages.

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Jun 18, 2020·SAGE Open Medical Case Reports·Mohamed Amin MesratiAbir Aissaoui

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