Anticoagulant-related iliopsoas muscle bleeding leading to fatal exsanguination: Report of two autopsy cases

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 342-344

  Türk, Elisabeth E ^a   Verhoff, Marcel A ^b   Tsokos, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exsanguination; Iliopsoas muscle; Oral anticoagulants; Phenprocoumon; Spontaneous bleeding

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; MORPHINE; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DRUG FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS HEMATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PHENPROCOUMON; PSOAS MUSCLES;

EID: 0036901269     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-200212000-00008     Document Type: Article

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