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Pediatric radiology · May 2018
Case ReportsPulmonary embolus as cause of death in an adolescent: demonstration on postmortem CT.
- Mary P Harty, H Theodore Harcke, Sharon W Gould, and Adrienne Sukula-Perlman.
- Department of Medical Imaging, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE, 19803, USA. mharty@nemours.org.
- Pediatr Radiol. 2018 May 1; 48 (5): 745-748.
AbstractComputed tomography (CT) is widely accepted in adult forensic death investigations (determination of cause and manner of death) but is only beginning to play a larger role in the cause of death determination in infants and children. We present a case of an adolescent with nephrotic syndrome who sustained cardiac arrest and died in the emergency department. A postmortem CT was requested by the state Office of the Medical Examiner as part of the medicolegal death investigation. Postmortem CT showed a saddle pulmonary embolus that was confirmed on conventional autopsy, demonstrating a natural manner of death.
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