Korean Journal of Legal Medicine  2007;31(1):92-94

Unexpected Death due to Massive Nontraumatic Intraabdominal Hemorrhage in association with Liver Cirrhosis.

Hyoung Joong KIM 1 ; Yu Hoon KIM ; Nak Eun CHUNG ; Joong Seok SEO

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Keywords

liver cirrhosis; massive intraabdominal hemorrhage; death

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

We reports a woman's death caused by massive intraabdominal hemorrhage, who was in chronic alcoholic state with advanced liver cirrhosis and found dead in her room. No macroscopic source for the bleeding was found in her intraabdomen and there was no circumstances of traumatic forces to the individual's body around the death. The presenting unsuspected death could be consistent with the forensic pathological cases described as sudden, unexpected death due to massive nontraumatic intraabdominal hemorrhage in association with liver cirrhosis by DiMaio in 1987.