|
KMID : 0357820080320020150
|
|
Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
2008 Volume.32 No. 2 p.150 ~ p.152
|
|
|
Sudden Death due to Undiagnosed Intracranial Meningioma: A Case Report
|
|
Huh Gi-Yeong
Kim Kwang-Hoon
Ahn Yong-Woo
Jo Gam-Rae
Jeong Seong-Muk
Lee Sang-Yong
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Since patients with intracranial neoplasms usually represent their neurological symptoms rather early in the course of the disease, sudden unexpected death due to intracranial neoplasms is an uncommon event seen only exceptionally in medicolegal autopsy practice. Although meningiom is one of the most common primary intracranial neoplasms, sudden death due to the tumor is an uncommon event. We report a sudden, unexpected death of a 56-year-old female with an undiagnosed olfactory groove meningioma. It is assumed that peritumoral edema is related to the sudden death among the several mechanisms.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Meningioma, Sudden death, Peritumoral edema
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|