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WASHINGTON -- Mikhail Lesin, the former Russian press minister who turned up dead in a Washington hotel room in 2015, sustained a fracture to a neck bone just below the jaw line "at or near the time" of his death, according to documents released by the city's medical examiner that provide new details about his final days.
The finding does not provide clear-cut evidence of foul play in Lesin's death; another statement in the documents suggests the bone could have been damaged "after death" -- possibly during the autopsy.
That detail, however, and others contained in the 149-page file released exclusively to RFE/RL offer the most precise scientific description to date about Lesin's death, which officials ruled accidental and said was caused by blunt-force injuries amid excessive alcohol consumption.
Once a powerful media adviser to President Vladimir Putin, Lesin fell out of favor with the Kremlin elite sometime around 2012 and had lowered his public profile before he was discovered dead in the Dupont Circle Hotel, located a few blocks from the White House, on November 5, 2015.
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https://www.rferl.org/a/lesin-autopsy-record/29824566.html
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Yeah, right. All doctors performing autopsies completely crush the hyoid bone. Give me a goddamned break. It's shit like this that made manafort sell out America and what motivates mango mussolini today. They know what's up if they cross ol' Vlad.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)1. Introduction
Blunt neck trauma is usually caused by motor vehicle accidents, strangulation, sport injuries or assaults. However, fracture of the hyoid bone is rare because it is protected by the mandible. In fact, most hyoid bone injuries are caused by strangulation.1 The management of patients with blunt neck contusion is difficult. This injury can cause rapid deterioration of a patients condition and can quickly become life-threatening. In most cases, a missed or delayed diagnosis can result in morbidity and death. The management of this injury has special considerations. Nevertheless, serious injuries following blunt neck trauma are not common.2, 3, 4
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)The hyoid bone is protected by muscle and very hard to break. It requires a good amount of force, usually by choking, or some other trauma like a punch, airbag excreta.
It is impossible to get these injuries falling in your hotel room. No matter how drunk you are. Any coroner worth their paycheck would not "accidentally" break this bone.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)Hmmm.
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)Not humans. But it is totally conceivable that bone could get cut during the procedure. Completely fractured is harder to explain. Also, if I was doing a high profile autopsy (and I have), I would be so very careful so there would be no ambiguities in my findings.
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)on your table, exhibiting all the other injuries, would you be extra careful in the neck area so you do not "accidentally" break the hyoid bone. Would you note upon examination the condition of the hyoid bone IE: intact, broken, fractured before moving on
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)Would make you think I wouldnt?
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)I was asking because the article implies the coroner could have broken it.
My response to that (upthread) was that any coroner, worth their paycheck would not "accidentally" break it. Just asking for verification
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)Wouldnt be extra careful? And completely fractured? What does that mean? The path would have had to do something weird. Not a clean cut like wed see with an instrument.
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)A person that drunk can fall in a bathroom and bag their head on the tub. (even though I have found higher end hotels do not have a tub. Usually just a large shower stall.)
IMO what they do not do is get up. Fall again and again and again with enough force to have blunt forced trauma to their torso, legs, arms, and neck.