An insignificant appearing autopsy finding may become quite important when circumstances surrounding the deaths are taken into consideration. However, circumstantial information is not always readily available at the time of autopsy.
Therefore, diligent efforts are required to obtain full circumstantial information or death which is so vital in the investigation.
For the administration of justice, wheather it be civil or criminal, the medicolegal practitioners should be familial with underlying diseases and inducements of sudden death and the risk factors of underlying diseases.
So, the author selected the underlying diseases that constitute above 3% in Korea medicolegal autopsy statistics and the deaths, those mechanisms were not clarified, such as SIDS, SMDS, and status thymicolymphaticus and reviewed the medicolegal aspects of inducements and dangerousness of sudden unexpected death due to natural causes.
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