Azmak, Derya2024-06-122024-06-1220060195-7910https://doi.org/10.1097/01.paf.0000221082.72186.2ehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14551/22433AD increasing death rate as a result of violence constitutes a large group in medicolegal autopsies. Specially, deaths due to asphyxia are one of the most important causes in violence deaths. During the 21-year period from January 1984 to October 2004, there were 134 asphyxial deaths autopsied by the Department of Forensic Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. Asphyxial deaths comprise 15.7% of all forensic autopsies; 20.8% of the cases are aged between 30 and 39 years, and the average age was 41.9 years. Males constitute 79.8% of all the cases. The most frequent method of asphyxiation death is hanging (56 cases, 41.8%), followed by drowning (30.5%) and carbon monoxide poisoning (8.2%). More violent methods, such as ligature or manual strangulations, constitute 2.9% and 2.3% of all asphyxial deaths, respectively. Although it was varying according to the methods of asphyxiation, suicide was found to be the manner of death in the majority of the cases.en10.1097/01.paf.0000221082.72186.2einfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessMethod Of AsphyxiationManner Of DeathCause Of DeathAutopsySuicidal Ligature StrangulationMonoxide-Related DeathsAutoerotic AsphyxiationTraumatic AsphyxiaMedicolegal AutopsiesLaryngeal HemorrhagesSelf-StrangulationEsophageal PolypHanging DeathsUnited-StatesArticle272134144Q3WOS:0002381316000092-s2.0-3374850605716738432Q3