[Unusual cause of death of a parturient from circulatory failure (author's transl)].

Bilateral phaeochromocytoma was histologically recorded from a primigravida and primipara, 22 years of ager, who had died 13 hours after precipitate spontaneous birth of a living mature child. Mucosal neurofibroma on the tongue and solid medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland with amyloid, associated with Hashimoto's lymphocytic thyreoiditis, were additional findings. Coincidence of such carcinoma with Hashimoto's thyreoiditis so far has not been described in international literature. When the abdominal cavity was relieved of pressure after parturition, bleeding started into the phaeochromocytoma on the left side. Death then was caused by resulting peripheral circulatory failure.