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ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2025

Partial amputation due to tongue bite in death-associated with eclampsia.

Matías Arroyo-Navarrete, Lourdes Gómez-Jiménez, Gabriel M Fonseca

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Article in Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Matías Arroyo-NavarreteCentro de Investigación en Odontología Legal y Forense (CIO), Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.
Lourdes Gómez-JiménezNational Institute of Forensic Pathology "Dr. Sergio Sarita Valdez", Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Gabriel M FonsecaCentro de Investigación en Odontología Legal y Forense (CIO), Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. gabriel.fonseca@ufrontera.cl.ORCID 0000-0001-7397-5907

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eclampsia is one of the most dangerous complications of pregnancy and has a high incidence in developing countries. It is characterized by coma and the occurrence of generalized tonic-clonic seizures in pregnant women with hypertension. Deep bites on the tongue and other orofacial injuries have been described as consequences of these seizures. We present a case of death associated with eclampsia in which the bite during the seizure episode caused almost total amputation of an enlarged tongue (macroglossia). The medico-legal value of this finding and the situation due to antecedent pathological conditions and lack of routine screening in pregnant women who may migrate legally or illegally to give birth with better medical care are discussed.

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Amputation, TraumaticEclampsiaTongueAdultFemaleHumansPregnancyEclampsiaForensic odontologyForensic pathologySeizuresTongue

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