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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Postoperative cervical soft tissue hemorrhage with acute upper airway obstruction |
Author: | Quick, E. Byard, R. |
Citation: | Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2013; 58(SUPPL. 1):S264-S266 |
Publisher: | Amer Soc Testing Materials |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0022-1198 1556-4029 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Esther Quick and Roger W. Byard |
Abstract: | Cervical surgery may be complicated by acute upper airway obstruction due to hematoma formation. Two cases are reported following cervical surgery where stridor, respiratory distress, and lethal airway occlusion resulted from hemorrhage that did not arise from large vessels. Case 1: A 50-year-old man who had an elective anterior fusion of C5-6 vertebrae developed marked neck swelling and stridor. At autopsy, there was significant cervical interstitial hemorrhage and edema. Major vessels were intact. Case 2: An 86-year-old man who underwent a carotid endarterectomy developed stridor and swelling of his neck. At autopsy, there was extensive interstitial hemorrhage and edema within the soft tissues of the neck. The endarterectomy site was intact. Both deaths were due to upper airway obstruction from postoperative cervical interstitial hemorrhage with no large vessel damage identified. Hemorrhage from small vessels may therefore lead to critical soft tissue hematoma formation and edema with airway obstruction and death. |
Keywords: | forensic science postoperative hemorrhage hematoma airway obstruction surgery cervical |
Rights: | © 2012 American Academy of Forensic Sciences |
DOI: | 10.1111/1556-4029.12026 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12026 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Pathology publications |
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