Is there a doctor in the house? Help with a death cert, please!

James Cowley is one of my greats. I can't read the cause of death on his death cert - I'd probably be able to puzzle it out if I spoke medicalise...

It looks to me as though he suffered an accident, had surgery, spent six months in the hospital, and then died. Can anyone shed light on the handwritten cause of death?

Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give!

Why didn't they just type it all, sorry maybe someone else can read it.

I know, funny, huh? Thanks for trying!

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Here is a snapshot: http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/bpbrox/004322033_00136.jpg

Looks like some complications after an operation in November 17th 1939, 6 months earlier. The second line starts with Ascending colon

First line starts with what looks like 'Carcinoma of'.
Second line is (as Bjorn said) 'Ascending colon, Iluem'. That is 'iluem' with a capital i.
Third line looks like 'metrioperitoneal' .

I am somewhat f a handwrite analyst the technical term of which presently evades me.

And now for something completely different, if you'll excuse me. What is 'bumping' ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(Internet)

Since it is medical terms the third line is probably "and retroperitoneal" as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroperitoneal_hemorrhage

It's definitely related to cancer of the digestive tract...your ileum is the part of your intestines in the lower portion of your abdomen. "Retroperitoneal" would include things like the duodenum, colon, and rectum. But that third word is a mystery. It looks like "inocum," which wouldn't mean anything (though "inoculum" is a term for what you're inoculated with). I'll pass it along to some friends in medicine and see what they can come up with.

I would guess he died of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorectal_cancer

I'm with you, Bjørn, but that third word has me curious and wanting to make sure. Private User, I sent the picture to a friend of mine who is currently in med school, because I figure that if he can't decipher it, he's around a ton of people who might be able to help.

Wow, thanks you guys, you rock!!

"Bumping" means posting to a thread for the sole purpose of getting it to move back up in a list of threads that age when no one is posting to them... In other words, I was afraid that my question would sink down to the third or fourth page of discussions and go unnoticed, so by posting to it I caused it to move back up to the top again. Make sense?

RE: Handwriting expertise - Is "graphologist" the word you were looking for? I hate when words skitter around in my head and refuse to be captured!

@Jennifer

Yep, that makes sense and yep, I think thats the word I was looking for and yep, lol, capture those words baby!

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Yes, it looks like it says:
Carcinoma of [__________]
Ascending colon [________]
and retroperitonial.

Sounds like complications of colon cancer.

Take 2:
Carcinoma of [__________]
Ascending colon + Cecum
and retroperitonial.

Take 3:
Carcinoma of [__________]
Ascending colon, Ileum
and retroperitonial.

I BELIEVE I GOT IT....
Take 4:
Carcinoma of Caecum
Ascending colon, Ileum
and retroperitonial.

What do I win? LOL

Wahoooo! Ding ding ding ding, we have a WINNER!!!

And your prize is...my undying gratitude?

Hmmm, if that's not enough, how about I won't send my Darling Six YO over to your house to tell you in excrutiating detail about Ben 10 and his "army-matrix"? Now THERE'S a prize!

Seriously, K, thanks so much, I really appreciate it. ;)

Yeah the word Caecum threw me off, because I've seen it as Cecum before. But, while I was "searching" the anatomy of the rectum (who'da thunk Geni.com would have me looking at images of rectums), I came across the word Cecum...and thought, "I wonder if it's also written as Caecum..." Lo and behold it was.

You are good!! I'm really happy, thanks. Hey, everyone, thanks so much for playing The Cause of Death Game!!! /lol

Glad I could help...it was actually a "fun" game.