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Here, we report a bath\u2010related fatality in a woman in her late 60s in which PMCT demonstrated a crescent\u2010shaped epidural collection along the right parietal convexity. The collection exhibited layered components, consisting of a fat\u2010attenuation upper layer and a dependent low\u2010attenuation layer with a small amount of gas. PMCT also demonstrated diffuse bilateral ground\u2010glass opacities, bilateral pleural effusions, and left pneumothorax, as well as fluid accumulation in the paranasal sinuses and airway fluid with foam. At autopsy, extensive epidermal stripping and blistering with heat rigor were observed, and red frothy fluid was present within the airway. Autopsy revealed a brick\u2010colored epidural deposit (approximately 15\u2009g) without skull fracture, consistent with heat\u2010coagulated blood. Toxicological analysis detected triazolam and mirtazapine in the blood. Drowning was considered highly likely; however, definitive confirmation was limited by severe systemic thermal alteration. This case highlights a forensic diagnostic pitfall in which heat hematoma\u2010like epidural changes following prolonged hot\u2010water immersion may mimic traumatic epidural hematoma on PMCT, underscoring the importance of integrating scene information, toxicology, PMCT, and autopsy findings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/1556-4029.70326","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,4]],"date-time":"2026-04-04T06:45:35Z","timestamp":1775285135000},"page":"1899-1903","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Heat hematoma\u2010like epidural collection mimicking traumatic hematoma in a reheated bathtub death"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"71","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1889-7496","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akihito","family":"Usui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Diagnostic Image Analysis Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine  Sendai Miyagi Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sohtaro","family":"Mimasaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Forensic Medicine Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine  Sendai Miyagi Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Masato","family":"Funayama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Forensic Medicine Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine  Sendai Miyagi Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_14_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/s0305\u20104179(98)00170\u20103"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0305\u20104179(91)90069\u2010s"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s13244\u2010018\u20100633\u20102"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00330\u2010018\u20105731\u20105"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.crad.2012.10.019"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s12024\u2010025\u201001058\u20109"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_8_1","first-page":"184","volume-title":"Knight's forensic pathology","author":"Saukko P","year":"2016"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7759\/cureus.19842"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejrad.2012.08.011"}],"container-title":["Journal of Forensic Sciences"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/1556-4029.70326","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1111\/1556-4029.70326","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/1556-4029.70326","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,28]],"date-time":"2026-09-28T03:51:07Z","timestamp":1790567467000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1556-4029.70326"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,3]]},"references-count":9,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,7]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/1556-4029.70326"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1556-4029.70326","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0022-1198","1556-4029"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0022-1198","type":"print"},{"value":"1556-4029","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,3]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2026-02-02","order":0,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2026-03-24","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2026-04-03","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}