Black M, Graham D I
Department of Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.
J Clin Pathol. 2002 Jan;55(1):44-50. doi: 10.1136/jcp.55.1.44.
Sudden unexplained deaths as a result of intracranial lesions in adults are an important component of medicolegal practice and are best examined as a combined effort by a forensic pathologist, or a histopathologist experienced in coroner's necropsies, and a neuropathologist. Analysis of case material on file in the University of Glasgow's departments of forensic medicine and science, and neuropathology showed that the principal causes were sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP), intracranial haemorrhage, either natural or after trauma, purulent meningitis or an abscess, and tumours. The mechanisms of death are considered to be the rapid increase of intracranial pressure caused by bleeding into the various compartments of the brain, or an acute obstructive hydrocephalus, and in cases where death is very rapid, autonomic and/or neurochemical dysfunction.
成人因颅内病变导致的不明原因猝死是法医学实践的一个重要组成部分,最好由法医病理学家、或有验尸经验的组织病理学家以及神经病理学家共同进行检查。对格拉斯哥大学法医学与科学系以及神经病理学系存档的病例资料分析表明,主要病因包括癫痫猝死(SUDEP)、自然性或外伤性颅内出血、化脓性脑膜炎或脓肿以及肿瘤。死亡机制被认为是血液流入脑内各个腔隙导致颅内压迅速升高、或急性梗阻性脑积水,而在死亡非常迅速的情况下,则是自主神经和/或神经化学功能障碍。