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Suicide by a power drill.

Abstract

This is the report of a 62-year-old man who committed suicide by drilling through his anterior chest wall with an electric power drill. Death was caused by pericardial tamponade combined with bleeding into the pleural cavity. The skin lesion at the left hemithorax was similar to a bullet entrance wound.

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R Hausmann, P Betz. 2002-10-09. Suicide by a power drill.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0379-0738(02)00273-6

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