The incidence and characteristic features of fatal hemorrhage due to ruptured varicose veins: A 10-year autopsy study

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-302

  Byard, Roger W ^a,b   Gilbert, John D ^a  

^a FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death; Exsanguination; Ulceration; Varicose veins

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; SEX RATIO; STOMACH EROSION; TIME OF DEATH; VARICOSIS; VEIN RUPTURE; VICTIM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 36549075239     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e31814250b3     Document Type: Article

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