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    Fatal intussusception in infancy: an experience in forensic autopsy
    (Legal medicine, 2003) Ng'walali, Paul M.
    Intussusception, although a common cause of pediatric surgical emergencies, is a rarely fatal condition. A 7-month-old infant who was discovered in her cot was unresponsive and pronounced dead after 2 h of uneventful cardiopulmonary resuscitation in an emergency hospital. Forensic autopsy which was performed in order to clarify the circumstances surrounding the death revealed intussusceptions at two sites of the ileum. Although morbidity and mortality rates from the condition have progressively declined in recent decades but avoidable deaths still occur as was experienced in the present case. The forensic pathology significance in this case was the occurrence of ‘painless intussusception’ whereby the affected child clinically exhibited no discomfort or characteristic features of acute abdomen until death. In summary, the present case has exhibited an uncommon fatal occurrence and demonstrated the importance of forensic autopsy in such unexpected sudden infant deaths.
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    Pink spots of Hedley-White in the brain. Evaluation of the significance in the forensic autopsy
    (Legal medicine, 2000) Ng'walali, Paul M.
    Pink spots are sharply demarcated round to oval discolorations with a white center in the deeper areas of the formalin-fixed brain. In 152 forensic autopsies with neuropathological examinations, the authors observed pink spots in three of 16 patients with bacterial infectious diseases. Pink spots could not be found in 136 patients without bacterial infectious diseases. These results verify the concept that pink spots correlate with bacterial infections. The presence of pink spots will be used as an indication of infectious diseases in the forensic autopsy.
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    Traumatic Basal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Rupture of the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery
    (Neurologia medico-chirurgica, 2000) Ng'walali, Paul M.
    A 20- year-old male presented with traumatic basal subarachnoid hemorrhage after being involved in a fight. Antemortem clinical examination could not exclude the possibility of rupture of abnomal blood vessels because of the absence of the external injuries.Careful postmortem of examination of the head and neck regions and histological examination of the intracranial arteries demonstrated traumatic rupture of the left posterior inferior cerebellar artery due to a fist blow to the jaw.This case indicates the need for careful autopsy examination for the differentiation of traumatic and non traumatic basal suburachnoid hemorrhages