Maternal death in pregnancy from HELLP syndrome. A report of three medico-legal autopsy cases with special reference to distinctive histopathological alterations

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-53

  Tsokos, M ^a   Longauer, F ^b   Kardosova V ^b   Gavel, A ^b   Anders, S ^a   Schulz, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Eclampsia; Forensic histopathology; HELLP syndrome; Intrahepatic haemorrhage; Liver pathology; Maternal death; Pre eclampsia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; HELLP SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KUPFFER CELL; LEUKOSTASIS; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MESANGIUM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0036936430     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-001-0276-5     Document Type: Article

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