Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

412-Chest Organs of a Case of Infanticide by Violent Asphyxia

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Description	Chest Organs of a Case of Infanticide by Violent Asphyxia
Author	Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Copyright	Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine

412 - Is showing the chest organs of a case of infanticide by violent asphyxia. The lungs are showing signs of respiration, i.e. they are voluminous; with mosaic appearance and rounded borders; and covering the heart anteriorly. There are Tardieu spots under the pleura and the pericardium, denoting that the cause of death was asphyxia

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