Xenomeliaa propósito de un caso de suicidio
- Rosa María Marote González
- Francisco Javier Pera Bajo
- María Teresa Elegido Fluiters
- María Antonia Martínez Montero
ISSN: 0377-4732
Year of publication: 2018
Volume: 44
Issue: 2
Pages: 83-84
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de medicina legal: órgano de la Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses
Abstract
We present a case of suicide by hanging in which subsequent investigations, obtained through the family and the study of the electronic media which were owned by the deceased, oriented towards the existence of a case of xenomelia, that we bring given how uncommon it.
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