A 19-year-old salesman developed severe right upper abdominal and back pain, 13 days prior to his death. On the day of his death he became acutely dyspnoeic and died shortly afterwards. A Coroner's autopsy showed bilateral massive pulmonary thromboembolism with widespread thrombosis in a hepatic cavernous haemangioma.
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