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Case Reports
. 1989 Dec;10(4):340-3.
doi: 10.1097/00000433-198912000-00014.

Sudden infant death from atelectasis due to amniotic fluid aspiration

N Ikeda  1 , M Yamakawa, Y Imai, T Suzuki
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Sudden infant death from atelectasis due to amniotic fluid aspiration

N Ikeda et al. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1989 Dec.

Abstract

An infant girl, whose hands showed lobster-claw deformity, was found dead in her bed at 17 days of age. Macroscopic and microscopic examination of the lungs showed fatal atelectasis. The alveolar spaces were filled with fluid, epithelial cells, and squamous debris. These were the constituents of amniotic fluid aspirated before birth. The present case suggested that some sudden unexpected deaths in early infancy are delayed deaths caused by amniotic fluid aspiration.

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