Description

Advanced penile cancer may be the cause of sudden death.


Patient selection: advanced penile squamous cell carcinoma

 

Cause of death: extensive local invasion by the carcinoma with ulceration and massive exsanguination from rupture of a femoral artery

 

Differential diagnosis:

(1) suicide

(2) self-mutilation

(3) homicide


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