Esophageal variceal hemorrhage presenting as sudden death in outpatients: A study of 45 medicolegal autopsy cases

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1197-1200

  Tsokos, M ^a   Turk E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STAIN; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PANCREAS; PATHOGENESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL MEDICINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; TIME OF DEATH; TOXICITY TESTING; URINALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; DEATH, SUDDEN; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036826535     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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