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Leg massage by mother resulting in fatal pulmonary thromboembolism
Chittaranjan Behera1, Shinto Devassy1, Asit R Mridha1
11 Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
The Medico-Legal Journal
|April 27, 2017
Abstract:
We report the sudden death of a 23-year-old male with hairline ankle fracture after massage of the leg by his mother. Autopsy confirmed the cause of death as pulmonary thromboembolism due to deep vein thrombosis of the leg veins which was dislodged and travelled to his lungs consequent to the leg massage. The treating doctors did not warn the patient of the risk of developing pulmonary thromboembolism.