Marfan syndrome: Clinical consequences resulting from a medicolegal autopsy of a case of sudden death due to aortic rupture

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-58

  Klintschar, M ^a   Bilkenroth, U ^b   Arslan Kirchner, M ^c   Schmidtke, J ^d   Stiller, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology Eisleben   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Arachnodactyly; Early diagnosis; Fibrillin 1 gene; Marfan syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRILLIN;

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INJURY; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; SIBLING; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AORTA; AORTIC RUPTURE; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CORONARY VESSELS; DEATH, SUDDEN; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; SIBLINGS;

EID: 64249169009     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0288-5     Document Type: Article

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