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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 2010;34(1):67-71.
Published online May 31, 2010.
Review of Acupuncture Related Death Cases with a Case Report: Acupuncture Shock?.
Hyeyoon Chang, Jae Hong Park, Sohyung Park
1Department of Pathology, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
2Department of Forensic Medicine, National Institute of Scientific Investigation, Seoul, Korea. zzeva@korea.kr
Abstract
During or after acupuncture treatment, sudden or unexpected death can happen. And appropriate postmortem examination with legal autopsy is very important and critical to determine whether or not the death is caused by acupuncture treatment itself. Many complications and injuries related with acupuncture have been known, but there may be no complications and no diseases to explain sudden death like our case. Therefore through our presenting case we intend to suggest a few points at postmortem examination in acupuncture related death cases and propose to consider the possibility of acupuncture shock in the cases similar to ours.
Key Words: acupuncture, autopsy, complication
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