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Results: Epilepsy and intracranial hemorrhage have been found to be the two main causes of sudden and unexplained deaths in adults due to intracranial pathologies. Intracranial neoplasms are not among the two main causes of SD, as they are usually discovered before fatality, so their rate of SD is not so extensive.
Jul 9, 2021 · The medico-legal term “sudden death (SD)” refers to those deaths that are not preceded by significant symptoms. SD in apparently healthy individuals (newborn through to adults) represents a challenge for medical examiners, law enforcement officers, and society as a whole.
- Francesco Sessa, Massimiliano Esposito, Giovanni Messina, Giulio Di Mizio, Nunzio Di Nunno, Monica S...
- 10.3390/healthcare9070870
- 2021
- Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Jul; 9(7): 870.
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Sudden unexplained deaths as a result of intracranial lesions in adults are an important component of medicolegal practice and are best examined as a combined effort by a forensic pathologist, or a histopathologist experienced in coroner's necropsies, and a neuropathologist. Analysis of case material on file in the University of Glasgow's ...
- M Black, D I Graham
- 2002
Jan 4, 2022 · Some of the notable intracranial causes of sudden unexpected death include intracranial hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, epilepsy, brain tumors, meningitis, and cerebral abscess (Table (Table1) 1) . The majority of sudden natural deaths occur outside hospitals and because neuropathology autopsies are uncommonly performed, a cardiac cause of death ...
Feb 13, 2023 · Results: Epilepsy and intracranial hemorrhage have been found to be the two main causes of sudden and unexplained deaths in adults due to intracranial pathologies.
Jul 9, 2021 · The medico-legal term “sudden death (SD)” refers to those deaths that are not preceded by significant symptoms. SD in apparently healthy individuals (newborn through to adults) represents a...
Aug 24, 2016 · The phenomenon of sudden and unexpected death can has been observed in individuals with benign cerebellar astrocytomas, individuals with otherwise benign tumours in critical locations such as a subependymoma in the aqueduct of Sylvius, colloid cyst of the third ventricle, arachnoid cysts, Lhermitte–Duclos syndrome and other uncommon conditions.
