Citation

Busch DB, Huntington RW, Hartmann HA. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1987; 8(1): 64-67.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3578208

Abstract

We here report an unusual, apparently accidental death, in which weakness associated with a progressive neuromuscular disease, Friedreich's ataxia, apparently resulted in the drowning of the deceased. The possibility of neuromuscular disease as a rare cause of drownings should not be overlooked.

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