Sarcoidosis and mechanisms of unexpected death.

abstract：:Bite marks inflicted on animate and inanimate objects will undergo a certain degree of deformation. This fact remains one of the biggest stumbling blocks when analyzing evidence for court presentation. It has been demonstrated that the reliability of pattern association analysis will not be affected by minimal degrees...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Stols G,Bernitz H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent homicide investigation, high velocity backspatter was observed on the sleeve cuff of the accused. These minute droplets were discovered only after microscopic examination and were limited in number. A study was initiated to determine if these were truly backspatter droplets or transferred blood produced fr...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Pex JO,Vaughan CH

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature regarding bone color is limited to determining location of primary and secondary dispositions. This research is the first to use bone color to interpret the sequence of events surrounding body disposition. Two scenarios were compared-bones buried and then exposed on the ground surface and bones exposed then...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Huculak MA,Rogers TL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short tandem repeat (STR) profiles from 32,671 individuals generated by the ABI Profiler Plus and Cofiler systems were screened for variant alleles not represented within manufacturer-provided allelic ladders. A total of 85 distinct variants were identified at 12 of the 13 CODIS loci, most of which involve a truncated...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Allor C,Einum DD,Scarpetta M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field studies in forensic entomology seem to assume that a cadaver is a resource equally accessible to flies, irrespective of the species' size, behavior, and sensorial capacity. We aimed to challenge this assumption by experimentally manipulating baited traps in order to test whether the accessibility to decomposing ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Barbosa TM,Jales JT,Vasconcelos SD,Gama RA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diethyl ether was found in samples of the blood, urine, and lung from a fire victim. Because the lung also carried a number of low-boiling paraffins, it was inferred that the detected compounds came from engine starting fluid, which the victim apparently had been exposed to while be intentionally used it as an acceler...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Schuberth J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The full childhood triad of enuresis, firesetting, and cruelty to animals is seldom reported by patients in acute care psychiatric facilities. Two of the three elements have been reported with greater frequency and constitute useful diagnostic information. Literature on the triad has been reviewed and data from three ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Felthous AR,Bernard H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic calcifications, as calcified atheromatous elements, are markers of cardiovascular disease. However, the literature gives little information regarding their morphological aspect, making their identification very rare in skeletonized cases. In this paper, we document the morphological, histological, and ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Biehler-Gomez L,Maderna E,Brescia G,Caruso V,Rizzi A,Cattaneo C

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of problems may prevent or hinder a dental-identification (ID) team in its efforts to identify mass casualties. Since these problems have been infrequently reported in a comprehensive manner, the authors identified and summarized these problems to increase the awareness of dental-ID team members and to ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Brannon RB,Kessler HP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gabapentin, a GABA analogue, is a nonopioid prescribed for seizure control and neuralgic pain. Its abuse for recreational purposes has been increasing in recent years as the number of prescriptions also increases. In our series, we review 104 cases of decedents who tested positive for gabapentin in postmortem blood sa...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Tharp AM,Hobron K,Wright T

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subaortic pseudoaneurysms are rare but can be a cause of sudden death in young individuals. This case report involves a 20-year-old Vietnamese male who died suddenly from rupture of a subaortic pseudoaneurysm with resultant hemopericardium with tamponade. He had a history of bicuspid aortic valve with recent but heale...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Saint-Martin P,Rogers C,Carpenter E,Fishbein MC,Lau S,Sathyavagiswaran L

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ability to develop latent fingerprints on paper using heat alone has been noted previously, it has been considered impractical for casework and inferior to other techniques. Here a new refinement of the technique is demonstrated for the high quality development of latent fingerprints on porous surfaces su...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Brown AG,Sommerville D,Reedy BJ,Shimmon RG,Tahtouh M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, a number of studies have demonstrated that forensic examiners can be biased by task-irrelevant contextual information. However, concerns relating to methodological flaws and ecological validity attenuate how much the current body of knowledge can be applied to real-life operational settings. The curre...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Curley LJ,Munro J,Lages M,MacLean R,Murray J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the identification and quantitation of two tricyclic antidepressants, amoxapine (Asendin) and trimipramine (Surmontil) is presented here. Samples were extracted with hexane at pH 10, back-extracted with 1.0N sulfuric acid. The acidic layer was adjusted to pH 10 and re-extracted with hexane. Electron impac...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Wu Chen NB,Schaffer MI,Lin RL,Hadac JP,Stein RJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study extends previous work on the sorption of explosives to the hair matrix. Specifically, we have studied the interaction of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) as a function of chemical pretreatment with acetonitrile, neutral and alkaline hydrogen peroxide, methanolic KOH and potassiu...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Oxley JC,Smith JL,Kirschenbaum LJ,Marimiganti S,Efremenko I,Zach R,Zeiri Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Additional studies were performed with respect to examining the lower limits at which canines can reliably detect products commonly used as accelerants and distinguish them from pyrolysis products or background hydrocarbons. As part of a testing exercise performed in conjunction with a national conference of the Canin...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Kurz ME,Schultz S,Griffith J,Broadus K,Sparks J,Dabdoub G,Brock J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old male was admitted to hospital after 2 to 3 days of vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea following an apparent overdose of colchicine tables. During hospitalization his white blood cell count fell dramatically. At death, 33 h following initial hospitalization, pleural effusion with bilateral bronchopneumonia wa...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： McIntyre IM,Ruszkiewicz AR,Crump K,Drummer OH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elopements from psychiatric units are a frequent but usually low-grade risk. However, they are sometimes followed by harmful consequences, for which the psychiatrist and the hospital may be held liable. We describe management methods developed to reduce such liability. These include a structured observation system and...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Molnar G,Keitner L,Swindall L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this project was to investigate the trends of changes in the crystal morphology of cocaine in the presence of the common adulterants, caffeine and lidocaine HCl. By performing gold chloride microcrystal tests on samples of cocaine with adulterants at 10, 20, and 50% concentrations, trends in the chang...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Nelson HC,Gardner EA,Matteo D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Child abuse pediatricians often carry the stigma that their sole role is to diagnose maltreatment. In reality, child abuse pediatricians use their clinical experience and current evidence-based medicine to make the best medical diagnoses for the children they evaluate. To better understand the legal conclusion of susp...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Hendrix AD,Conway LK,Baxter MA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and precise method for the isolation and identification of dihydrocodeine from urine is reported. The narcotic is isolated from urine using Sep-Pak C18 cartridges for cleanup, requiring less than 30 min for preparation. Identification is performed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Nakamura GR,Stall WJ,Meeks RD

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the homogeneity of drug concentrations in muscle in 14 cadavers, comprising 11 drug overdoses and three cases of chronic therapeutic drug use. Analyses were performed on samples from twelve named muscles and femoral venous blood. Standard analytical techniques and instrumentation were used throughout. The...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Langford AM,Taylor KK,Pounder DJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns have been raised about hypothetical problems arising from the use of statistics for determining the likelihood of occurrence of DNA profiles for forensic purposes. A major contention is that reference databases based on subgroups of a major population category rather than on general (or major) population grou...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Budowle B,Monson KL,Giusti AM,Brown BL

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the authors discuss the problem of forensic authentication of digital audio recordings. Although forensic audio has been addressed in several articles, the existing approaches are focused on analog magnetic recordings, which are less prevalent because of the large amount of digital recorders available...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Faundez-Zanuy M,Lucena-Molina JJ,Hagmüller M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the quest for a simple, reliable technique to estimate the sex of human remains several novel metric skeletal indices have been reported. Only a few have been examined for utility in populations different from those in which they were developed. In this study, the mastoid process was evaluated for sex determination...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Jaja BN,Ajua CO,Didia BC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opium is the raw material for the production of heroin, and the characterization of opium seizures through laboratory analysis is a valuable tool for law enforcement agencies to trace clandestine opium production and trafficking. In this work, a method for opium profiling based on the relative content of five principa...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Liu C,Hua Z,Bai Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a hypothetical series of cases in which the DNA profile of a crime-scene sample is found to match a known profile in a DNA database (i.e., a "cold hit"), resulting in the identification of a suspect based only on genetic evidence. We show that the average probability that there is another person in the pop...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Song YS,Patil A,Murphy EE,Slatkin M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airbag injuries have resulted in the deaths of several infants and small children, and such deaths are generally associated with rearward-facing infant seats or unrestrained children in front passenger seats of cars equipped with airbags. An airbag can also cause death in a small child wearing a shoulder/lap belt, how...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Cooper JT,Balding LE,Jordan FB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraction of DNA from human skeletal remains applied to forensic, and evolutionary studies do not exclude risks, which are to be evaluated when working with unique specimens that could be damaged or even destroyed. In the present study were evaluated several nondestructive methods for recovering DNA instead of th...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Hervella M,Iñiguez MG,Izagirre N,Anta A,de-la-Rúa C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human erythrocyte peptidase A (Pep A) displays a genetic polymorphism in blacks. Its occurrence in human semen was examined for its possible use as a semen typing system. Studies by starch gel electrophoresis, in which the Pep A was located by an improved method, were carried out on semen, semen stains, and vaginal sw...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Parkin BH

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00