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Autopsy - Special face and neck dissection is must.

External features - Specific features can be identified.

  • •Finger nail abrasions, finger tip contusions around the mouth, face with underlying bruises
  • •Lacerations of lips, gums and mucosal layer of oral cavity - can be present or absent
  • •Dislocation/ fracture of teeth
 

Injuries under the lip due to pressure over mouth

 

Contusions seen around the mouth

  

 

 
Internal findings:
 
  Non specific
  Mild-acute emphysema, pulmonary oedema

 

  • Associated criminality must be examined - e.g. Sexual assaults

 

  • Toxicology to be done to identify intoxication

 

  • Scene investigation help to identify the circumstance, Time since death, etc.