Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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102978 | Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Sudden death due to respiratory pathology is not uncommon and tuberculosis with its complications is well known to cause death. We report a case of a male, train passenger, who started coughing out blood and died on reaching the hospital. Medicolegal autopsy confirmed the sudden unexpected death to be due to pulmonary aspergillosis in the person with past medical history of tuberculosis.
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Authors
Prashantha Bhagavath, Prateek Rastogi, Ritesh G. Menezes, Manna Valiathan, T.S. Mohan Kumar, Y.P. Raghavendra Babu, Tanuj Kanchan, Francis N.P. Monteiro, Vinod C. Nayak,