title: Sudden death due to a rare brain tumor: an autopsy case.
abstract: Sudden death in persons with intracranial neoplasms is a rare mechanism of death detected in the forensic autopsies. 10 years-old girl was brought to a local clinic death shortly after analgesic therapy for headache. Autopsy findings showed a large, solid cerebellar mass. Histological diagnosis was pilomyxoid astrocytoma, low-grade tumor with features alike to pilocytic astrocytomas. In this case report we present and discuss rare autopsy case of pilomyxoid astrocytoma from medicolegal point of view.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  sudden death - brain - pilomyxoid astrocytoma - autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Council of Forensic Medicine of Turkey, Bursa Morque Department, Turkey. drbulenteren@@gmail.com
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eren
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Türkmen
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Comunoglu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Senel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Eren
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans