A case of fatal Clostridium perfringens bacteremia and sepsis following CT-guided liver biopsy of a rare neuroendocrine hepatic tumor

Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2017 Mar;13(1):78-81. doi: 10.1007/s12024-016-9823-8. Epub 2017 Jan 17.

Authors

Gianluca Landi¹, Giacomo Gualtieri², Irini Scordi Bello³, Daniel Kirsch³

Affiliations

¹ Section of Legal Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy. landi.gl@libero.it.
² Section of Legal Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
³ The Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York City, NY, USA.

PMID: 28093692
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-016-9823-8

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bacteremia / microbiology*
Biopsy / adverse effects*
Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / pathology
Clostridium Infections / complications*
Clostridium perfringens
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Liver / pathology
Liver Neoplasms / pathology
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity, Morbid
Radiography, Interventional
Sepsis / microbiology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed