During the autopsy of suicidal hanging, the finding which is unlikely to be found is:
Ligature mark in hanging: Site: Usually above the hyoid bone. Size/shape: Depends on the type of material used. Presence of two-ligature marks-- after few minutes of hanging, it might have slipped fuher down producing second ligature mark. Direction: It runs obliquely, backwards, non-continuous, upwards and towards the point of suspension. Suspension peak: Mark is noncontinuous because of a gap at the nape of neck, and hair intervening between ligature material and the skin underneath. Skin at the site: Usually depressed/grooved, pale in color, but later becomes yellowish brown, dry, hard and parchment-like. Subcutaneous tissue underneath the ligature mark is dry, white, firm and glistening. Prominent Ecchymosis and bruises at the edges & the floor of the ligature mark are suggestive of ligature strangulation
Presence of two ligature marks
Disruption of veebral column
Gap in the skin mark at the point of suspension
Ecchymosis and bruises at the edges & floor of the ligature mark
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