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KMID : 0357820100340010027
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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
2010 Volume.34 No. 1 p.27 ~ p.33
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A Statistical Aanalysis on Legal Autopsy in Jeonbuk Province in 2009
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Kim Hee-Jin
Lee Ho
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Abstract
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This statistical analysis was based on the cause and manner of death on 149 cases of legal autopsy performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Jeonbuk National University Medical School, referred by law enforcement agencies in Jeonbuk in 2009. Among the total 149 cases, male was 93 cases (62.4%), and female 56 cases (37.6%). The age of forties were 52 cases (34.9%), the fifties 22 cases (14.8%) and sixties 22 cases (14.8%), and these three decades occupied 96 cases (64.5%) more than half. By the manner of death, there were 105 cases of unnatural deaths (70.5%), 37 natural deaths (24.8%), and 7 unknown (4.7%). Among unnatural deaths, there were 30 cases of suicide (28.6%), 21 homicide (20.0%), 43 accident (41.0%), and 11 undetermined (10.5%). By the case of death, unnatural deaths was classified as 48 cases of traumatic deaths (45.7%), 19 asphyxia (18.1%), 15 thermal injuries (14.3%), 15 drowning (14.3%), 8 poisoning (7.6%). Among 37 natural deaths, there were 14 cases of cardiac diseases (37.8%), 10 diseases involving vascular system (27.0%), and 3 diseases involving digestive system (8.1%).
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KEYWORD
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legal autopsy, statistical analysis, Jeonbuk, 2009
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