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Sudden death due to ruptured hydatid cyst of the liver
A N Kök1, T Yurtman, N E Aydin
1Department of Forensic Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
Journal of Forensic Sciences
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
The cyst stage of Echinococcus granulosus is commonly located in the liver, which frequently results in a long symptomless period. We present a sudden death due to a freshly hemorrhagic hydatid cyst following blunt trauma to the liver in a 19-year-old boy. The possible mechanism was thought to be an anaphylactoid reaction to the leakage of the cyst fluid.