A case of lethal varicose vein rupture caused by massive leiomyoma.
Blood pattern analysis
Death scene investigation
Forensic autopsy
Forensic histology
Forensic pathology
Varicose vein
Journal
Forensic science international
ISSN: 1872-6283
Titre abrégé: Forensic Sci Int
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 7902034
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
13
05
2021
revised:
26
09
2021
accepted:
27
09
2021
pubmed:
9
10
2021
medline:
10
2
2022
entrez:
8
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Varicose veins are a common and benign disease, especially affecting the lower limbs of the elderly. This pathology can exhibit several complications, which in the majority of cases do not require medical treatment; life-threatening conditions are possible but extremely rare. We present here a suspected murder case in which a woman was found dead in her home with a large amount of blood soiling the floor and the furniture of her house. Death scene investigation (DSI) with body inspection and bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) were not exhaustive in excluding a homicide, and the prosecutor asked for a forensic autopsy. During the dissection, a uterine neoplasia, which altered the lower limb venous system, was detected, thus allowing to reconstruct the physio-pathological mechanism of the formation and rupture of the varicose vein.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34624735
pii: S0379-0738(21)00359-5
doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2021.111039
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
111039Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.