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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology 2/2018

01-06-2018 | Images in Forensics

Ruptured varicose veins and fatal hemorrhage

Authors: John D. Gilbert, Roger W. Byard

Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 2/2018

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An 84-year-old man who lived alone was found by a family member slumped in a chair in the bathroom. A trail of blood was present going from the bedroom to the bathroom with a pool of blood around his feet and a heavily blood-soaked towel. There was a past medical history of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, chronic back pain, recurrent urethral stricture with urinary tract infections due to balanitis xerotica obliterans (treated with a perineal urethrostomy and a stent), and varicose veins. He had been admitted to hospital two months before with urosepsis and bleeding from a varicose vein on the lateral aspect of his right lower leg. The admission was complicated by atrial flutter and acute renal failure. …
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Metadata
Title
Ruptured varicose veins and fatal hemorrhage
Authors
John D. Gilbert
Roger W. Byard
Publication date
01-06-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 1547-769X
Electronic ISSN: 1556-2891
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-017-9897-y

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