Citation

Höhler T, Becker J, Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH, Rittner C. Int. J. Legal Med. 1996; 108(5): 268-271.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8721430

Abstract

A 32-year-old patient died of a cerebellar haemorrhage and the blood coagulation analysis before death suggested defective synthesis of vitamin K-dependent clotting factors due to vitamin K deficiency. The post-mortem toxicological examination of different tissues revealed phenprocoumon poisoning as the cause of death. The differential diagnosis of vitamin K deficiency and the toxicology of hydroxycoumarins are discussed.

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