Hirvonen J, Rinne A
Forensic Sci Int. 1981 Jul-Aug;18(1):31-9. doi: 10.1016/0379-0738(81)90137-7.
A series of 27 sudden deaths caused by tumours, amounting to 1.2% of all deaths in the 5-year period studied, is found to include 9 cases where the death had also been unexpected, since the fatal tumour had gone undiagnosed. Four of these cases had had no preceding symptoms. Males were predominant (19 males vs. 8 females), and all the sudden unexpected deaths were males. The age range was 24 - 86 years for the males and 45 - 83 years for the females. The most common tumour was bronchial epidermoid carcinoma, which caused sudden death by massive haemorrhage into the lungs or externally. In the latter case the scene of death at home resembled a violent death. Other tumours found were mostly gastric or oesophageal epidermoid carcinomas and adenocarcinomas of the kidney, pancreas, ovary and colon.
在为期5年的研究中，一系列由肿瘤导致的27例猝死病例占所有死亡病例的1.2%，其中有9例死亡也属意外，因为致命肿瘤此前未被诊断出来。这些病例中有4例没有前驱症状。男性居多（19例男性对8例女性），所有突然意外死亡者均为男性。男性的年龄范围为24至86岁，女性为45至83岁。最常见的肿瘤是支气管表皮样癌，它通过肺部大量出血或外部出血导致猝死。在后一种情况下，在家中的死亡场景类似暴力死亡。发现的其他肿瘤大多是胃或食管表皮样癌以及肾、胰腺、卵巢和结肠的腺癌。
