Massive hemoperitoneum due to ruptured ectopic gestation: Postmortem CT findings in a deeply frozen deceased person

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 245-249

  O'Donnell, C ^a   Bedford, P ^a   Burke, M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CT scanning; Ectopic pregnancy; Frozen body; Hemoperitoneum; Postmortem; Sentinel clot

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROCHLORPERAZINE MALEATE; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHORION VILLUS; COLLAPSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYST; DIARRHEA; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GESTATIONAL SAC; HEART MASSAGE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; LIVER; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NAUSEA; PELVIS; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RESUSCITATION; RETICULOENDOTHELIOSIS VIRUS; RUPTURE; SWEATING; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS; UTERUS CAVITY; VOMITING;

AUTOPSY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FREEZING; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052178922     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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