Professor, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India
A minor trauma to varicose vein can result in sudden death due to excessive uncontrollable hemorrhage. One such incident happened where one school teacher while moving in the class got minor injury to leg which led to her death due to bleeding from injured varicose vein and scarred skin.
minor trauma and sudden death, varicose vein trauma, sclerosis of vessels and trauma
