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Case Reports
. 1987 Mar;8(1):64-7.
doi: 10.1097/00000433-198703000-00015.

Drowning of a Friedreich's ataxia patient

D B Busch, R W Huntington 3rd, H A Hartmann
Case Reports

Drowning of a Friedreich's ataxia patient

D B Busch et al. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1987 Mar.

Abstract

We here report an unusual, apparently accidental death, in which weakness associated with a progressive neuromuscular disease, Friedreich's ataxia, apparently resulted in the drowning of the deceased. The possibility of neuromuscular disease as a rare cause of drownings should not be overlooked.

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