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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Specialty: Clinical Laboratory, Hematology Oncology