Blood stain pattern analysis
The effect of an electronic con ...
The medical literature on the effect of electronic control devices (ECD) on muscle injury is sparse. In this paper, we examine pooled data from five ...
Age estimation and the medial c ...
This study was designed in order to assess the suitability of clavicular development in discriminating whether or not an individual has reached the ...
‘‘Ecstasy’’ associated deaths: ...
Amphetamine derivative drugs, particularly 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy, are popular recreational drugs. MDM ...
Medico-legal autopsy in postope ...
Sudden unexpected postoperative hemodynamic collapse with a high mortality develops in 1–3% of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (C ...
The medico-legal investigation ...
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been reported to be the leading cause of death in infants under 1 year of age in many countries. Unfortunate ...
Genetic polymorphisms of 17 sho ...
In forensic casework, Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) haplotyping is used in human identification, paternity testing and sexual assault cases ...
Visual and spectrophotometric o ...
Spectrophotometry has been investigated as a means to estimate the age of bruises as experiments have indicated that it can be used to detect the pr ...
Review: Pharmacogenetic aspects ...
The field of pharmacogenetics contains a wealth of potential for the enhancement of clinical practice by providing a more effective match between pa ...
Study of finger print patterns ...
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a malignant disease of an unknown origin. The present case control study was intended to compare the finger pr ...
Blood stain pattern analysis
Bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) refers to the collection, categorization and interpretation of the shape and distribution of bloodstains connected ...
Sudden death from ruptured intr ...
Central nervous system (CNS) vascular malformations are well-known entities that may cause sudden death from rupture and intracranial hemorrhage. De ...
Gene variants predisposing to S ...
Genetic risk factors play a role in sudden unexpected infant death; either as a cause of death, such as in cases with medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A d ...
Post-mortem computed tomography ...
The role of imaging has been long established in forensic practice as an adjunct to the conventional autopsy. Recently with the development of MDCT, ...
Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrha ...
We describe two previously unreported associations in four cases. The first two cases demonstrate an association between segmental mediolytic arteri ...
Necrotizing fasciitis with fata ...
Two cases of sudden and unexpected death due to necrotizing fasciitis are presented with a short overview of this rare disease with special referenc ...
An infant with subdural hematom ...
An 11-month-old girl presented to hospital with a massive subdural haematoma and bilateral retinal haemorrhages following an allegedly minor fall. T ...
Unique drowning in an atypical ...
Among the various modes of death due to asphyxiation, drowning is unique. Unlike other types of suffocation associated with occluding airway obstruc ...
Aspiration pneumonia and esopha ...
We report a case of acute bronchopneumonia and esophagotracheal fistula caused by a swallowed button battery in a 3-year-old girl. It was unclear ex ...
Unexpected death of a young wom ...
Myocardial bridging (MB) refers to a congenital condition where a segment of a major coronary artery courses within the myocardium for a variable di ...
A case of homicidal intraoral g ...
Determination of the manner of death in case of intraoral firearm wounds can be a challenge, especially if the circumstances of the incident are unc ...
Fatal human monocytic ehrlichio ...
Human ehrlichiosis is the term for a collection of tick-borne diseases caused primarily by obligate intracellular bacteria of the Ehrlichia species. ...
Armanni-Ebstein lesion, ketoaci ...
The Armanni- Ebstein lesion was first reported in 1877 and has been associated with deaths due to diabetic ketoacidosis. The lesion consists of subn ...
Fatal spontaneous subdural blee ...
A 7-week-old girl showed vomiting after feeding, facial pallor, loss of muscle tone and respiratory depression. An emergency doctor performed succes ...
Statistical analysis of kerf ma ...
Saw marks on bone have been routinely reported in dismemberment cases. When saw blade teeth contact bone and the bone is not completely sawed into ...
Colorimetric detection and chro ...
A number of analogues of phenethylamine and tryptamine, which are prepared by modification of the chemical structures, are being developed for circu ...