Incidentally Detected Lithopedion in an 87-Year-Old Lady: An Autopsy Case Report.

A lithopedion is a rare complication of pregnancy that occurs when a fetus in an intraabdominal location dies, and it is too large to be reabsorbed by the body. The case was an 87-year-old woman, and she was transferred to the morgue department in April 2014 to determine the cause of death. During autopsy, an intraabdominally located calcified dead fetus and a 12-cm diameter calcified cyst in the right ovary were incidentally detected. It was aged 25 to 29 weeks (according to femur and humerus measurements) with a size of 12.5 × 8 × 5 cm and a weight of 227 g. According to investigation reports, her husband died in 1990, and she had 3 deliveries, the most recent of which was in 1946. Because the menopause age of the case was not exactly known, the retention time of the lithopedion was supposed to be 24 to 68 years according to the date of the most recent pregnancy and the date of her spouse's death. It is the first case that has been incidentally detected and identified during an autopsy in Turkey and also one of the oldest cases in the literature.

[An Autopsy Case of Sudden Death Caused by Cerebral Malaria Infection]. / Serebral Malarya Enfeksiyonuna Bagli Ani Ölümle Sonuçlanan Otopsi Olgusu.

Malaria is a lethal protozoan infection which is generally diagnosed antemortem and rarely diagnosed postmortem in a few cases. A fifty five year old, Turkish citizen male has been referred for autopsy. It has been found that he has gone abroad to work a month ago, however, quitted malaria prophylaxis before the intended end and brought into the emergency department in an unconscious state.Following quinine and clindamycin treatment with the initial diagnosis of cerebral malaria, the case was reported to have died due to his general condition got worsened at the end of the third day of therapy.Histopathological evaluation of postmortem tissues was revealed haphazardly arranged minor bleedings and central vascular necrotic foci in the cerebrum, cerebelum and brain stem; light brown pigment containing cells around vasculature; and pigment containing cells in the spleen and bone marrow. Cerebral malaria has a rapid course and is rare but one of the lethal complications of infections with Plasmodium. Although domestic malaria cases has been decreasing in our country, it should be kept in mind that the malaria infection can be seen in persons travelling abroad to high endemic malarial regions and an appropriate antimalarial prophylaxis should be recommended to those overseas travellers.