Cause of internal hemorrhage determined after exhumation: Report of one case

Forensic Science International

Volumn 204, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages

  Dedouit, Fabrice ^a   Piercecchi Marti, Marie Dominique ^b   Leonetti, Georges ^b   Rougé, Daniel ^a   Telmon, Norbert ^a  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Forensic sciences; Hepatic artery rupture; Infectious arteritis; Intraperitoneal hemorrhage; Pyelonephritis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; ARTERITIS; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EXHUMATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GASTROENTERITIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTERITIS; KIDNEY COLIC; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROSCOPY; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UROSEPSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 78650906606     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.05.028     Document Type: Article

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