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Traumatic asphyxial deaths due to an uncontrolled crowd.
Nine people died of traumatic asphyxia due to an uncontrolled crowd at a community basketball game in New York City in 1991. We reviewed the circumstances, postmortem findings, and the causes of death. The majority of people had petechiae of the conjunctivae and face consistent with chest compression. There were minimal superficial blunt injuries and no fractures or acute intoxications. These d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4258.188