Position of Knot in neck & relation with working hand in Cases Of Hanging
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Present Study conducted prospectively to find out relation of working hand and position of knot in the neck in cases of hanging. A total of 390 postmortems were conducted in whole year out of which 35 cases (8.97%) were of hanging. Among these 35 cases 33 individuals were working with right hand. Remaining 2 individuals working with right hand the position of knot on neck were on right side in 15 cases (45.45%), on left side in 11 cases (33.33%), on center of occiput in 5 cases (15.15%) & on front of neck in 2 cases (6%). the result indicate that working hand has no relation with position of knot on neck in cases of hanging. To our knowledge this is first study on this problem.
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