Published February 1978
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Journal article
Suicide with cesium 137
Description
Report on first case of suicide with radioactive substance in Bulgaria is given. A defectoscopist with cyclothymic structure of character and psychotraumatic family environment made a second and successful attempt at suicide, this time by means of external irradiation with 137Cs with an activity of 5.3 C in the course of two hours. He irradiated his heart region and the first three fingers of his right hand. A grave picture of acute, local irradiation injury lasting four months with lethal outcome. The authors treat the psychological motives in the behaviour of these suicides and the reasons which determine the small number of suicide carried out with radioactive substance. (author)
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Suizid mit Caesium 137
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Z. gesamte Nervenheilkd. Psychother.
- Journal Volume
- 30
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Z. gesamte Nervenheilkd. Psychother.
- Journal Page Range
- 116-119
INIS
- Country of Publication
- German Democratic Republic
- Country of Input or Organization
- German Democratic Republic
- INIS RN
- 9373570
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CESIUM 137; CHEST; FINGERS; LETHAL IRRADIATION; MEN; PARTIAL BODY IRRADIATION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION SYNDROME
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; ARMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; BODY AREAS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; DISEASES; EXTERNAL IRRADIATION; HANDS; INJURIES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; LIMBS; MALES; MAMMALS; MAN; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PRIMATES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; VERTEBRATES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES