INCIDENCE OF INTRACRANIAL
HEMORRHAGE IN DEATHS DUE TO INTOXICATIONS
Asirdizer M, Ozaslan
I, Sari H, Cansunar FN, Batuk G.
2nd Congress of Forensic Science, Uludag University Medical
School, Bursa-1996, Summary Book of Congress.
ABSTRACT
In most of the classical pathology, neurosurgery and forensic medicine literatures,
one of the etiological causes of the intracranial hemorrhages arc to be defined as intoxications.
During seven years between 1988 and 1994, in Forensic Medicine Council Mortuary
Section, totally 14062 autopsies were performed. Among these, 1057 autopsies (% 7.52) were the deaths caused by intoxications.
In our study, 1057 autopsy reports concerned with deaths Caused by intoxications
arc retrospectively examined and these cases are classified. During this classification, we determined 455 (% 42.1) carbon
monoxide and 249 (% 23.56) drug intoxication cases among the deaths due to intoxications. The remained cases were deaths owing
to other intoxications.
Among 1057 deaths due to intoxications, there were 50 intracranial hemorrhages
(% 4.73) were defined in autopsies (additionally, in one case, there was more widespread subdural and subaracnoidal hemorrhage.
But, we didn’t evaluated it that because of fractures Caused by blunt cranial trauma. 21 of these were subaracnoidal,
5 of these were subdural + subaracnoidal, 6 of these were subaracnoidal + intracerebral, 2 of these were subaracnoidal
+ intraventricular + intracerebral and 16 of these were intracerebral or intracerebellar hemorrhages were defined. Additionally,
there were local! encephalomalasia areas in the 3 cases with subaracnoidal hemorrhage and in the one case with intracerebral
hemorrhage. In none of the cases, there were no lesions due to blunt cranial trauma.
In these cases, incidence of intracranial hemorrhages according to several of
poison, ages and sexes of victims, living periods after exposing to poisoning of victims were investigated and compared with
other literature knowledge.
Key words: Intoxication, intracranial hemorrhage, death, autopsy findings.
