title: [Myxoma of the left atrium as the cause of sudden death? An unusual fatality].
abstract: Case report of a 67-year-old woman who was found under mysterious circumstances 3 weeks after she had died. Main result of the autopsy was a myxoma of considerable size in the left atrium. Epidemiology, pathology and clinical aspects are presented. The myxoma's possible meaning as cause of death is examined in a fatality where the inquiry was restricted because of the corpse being putrefied and partly eaten away by maggots.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Hamburg.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krüger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology*; D011180:Postmortem Changes
vernacular_title: Myxom des linken Herzvorhofes als Ursache eines plötzlichen Todes? Ein ungewöhnlicher Todesfall.