Volume 11 Issue 8
Hyoid bone fractures in asphyxial deaths: impacts of neck constriction and stress mechanisms
1Dr Hina Rukhsar, 2Dr. Raheela Irshad, 3Kamran Chaudhary, 4Hassan Raza, 5Mohib Ali, 6Ayesha Bano, 7Kashif Lodhi
1Demonstrator, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Department, Khairpur Medical College, Khairpur Mir’s.
2Demonstrator, Dow International Medical College Ojha Campus Karachi
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7Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences. Università Politécnica delle Marche Via Brecce Bianche 10, 60131 Ancona (AN) Italy
Correspondence: Dr Hina Rukhsar, Demonstrator, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Department, Khairpur Medical College, Khairpur Mir’s.
| Abstract Whenever a case of dangling, strangling, or strangling is presented to Department of Laboratory for post-mortem investigation, hyoid bone is important element of the inspection on the post-mortem table. Several writers and researchers inside the current subject have emphasized hyoid bone fracture. Many believe that hyoid bone fracture occurs in around 24 percent of hanging instances. Others report that hyoid bone fracture occurs in around 71% of hanging instances. Researchers further reported that hyoid bone fractures became more common beyond the age of 43 owing to hardening and joint immobility. Others say that employing a firm ligature for hanging and strangling raises the risk of hyoid bone fracture. Several variables have been associated with hyoid bone fracture, including the style of constriction, the amount of ligature administration or power of constriction, long drop or short drop suspended, target age, victim gender, and so on. Aside from obtaining a hyoid broken bone at the autopsy table, it is also critical to determine whether the fracture is ante-mortem, post-mortem, or simply an artefact. Several have suggested a pre-autopsy X-ray of neck components to identify ante-mortem hyoid bone fracture. The current authors conducted research in 265 cases of hanging, 9 belongings of ligature strangulation, besides 8 cases of throttling to reveal that hyoid bone fracture remains zero or extremely infrequent in hanging but quite prevalent in both types of strangling. KEYWORDS: lactoferrin, protein-protein complexation, thermal stability, transglutaminase, α-lactalbumin |