Examination of the eye as a means to determine the early postmortem period: a review of the literature.

abstract：:When tried in court, mothers accused of neonaticide may claim that the umbilical cord just broke during birth and the newborn child bled to death accordingly. To evaluate the possibility of a breakage of the umbilical cord is the goal of this work. Therefore 25 umbilical cords from neonates of both sexes born at term ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tantius B,Rothschild MA,Valter M,Michael J,Banaschak S

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Forensic Anthropology Service of the Medical Examiner's Office of Porto Alegre was created in September 1997 to examine human skeletons, establish identification and identify lesions that may explain death. From September 1997 to December 2006, 344 skeletons were examined (mean: 37 examinations/year), and 322 were...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vaz M,Benfica FS

更新日期：2008-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven Y-STRs loci including minimal haplotypes (DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, and DYS385a,b) and two additional loci, namely DYS438 and DYS439 have been co-amplified in 100 healthy unrelated males of Chinese Yi minority ethnic group using the Y-PLEX 5 and Y-PLEX 6 kit, in order to investig...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Zhu B,Shen C,Qian G,Shi R,Dang Y,Zhu J,Huang P,Xu Y,Zhao Q,Ma J,Liu Y

更新日期：2006-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a possibly first forensic autopsy case of death following a spontaneous recovery from cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) after clinical declaration of death: 'Lazarus phenomenon'. A 65-year-old male with congenital deafness and dumbness was found unconscious in his room at a public home. During pre-hospital and cl...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Maeda H,Fujita MQ,Zhu BL,Yukioka H,Shindo M,Quan L,Ishida K

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the use of benchtop NMR spectroscopy in the analysis of solids and liquids used and/or produced during the HI reduction of pseudoephedrine was evaluated. The study focused on identifying organic precursors and phosphorus containing compounds used in and/or produced during the manufacturing process. Samp...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bogun B,Moore S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pathological changes in the heart induced by pulmonary embolism, 20 autopsy cases of pulmonary embolism and 10 control cases of acute death from traumatic injury were examined. Adding to the routine hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining, immunostaining with CD68 pan-macrophage marker was performed on the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Iwadate K,Doi M,Tanno K,Katsumura S,Ito H,Sato K,Yonemura I,Ito Y

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2017, 47,600 overdose deaths were reported to be associated with the abuse of opioids, including prescription painkillers (e.g. oxycodone), opiates (e.g. heroin), or synthetic opioids (e.g. fentanyl) within the United States. The recent spike in the presence of synthetic opioids in lots of heroin distributed on the...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Angelini DJ,Biggs TD,Maughan MN,Feasel MG,Sisco E,Sekowski JW

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicolegal (coroner's) autopsies are an important source of epidemiological data. A large proportion of them comprise sudden natural deaths and an analysis of such cases has never been undertaken at the University Hospital of the West Indies, the only teaching hospital in Jamaica. In a retrospective study, 841 cases ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Escoffery CT,Shirley SE

更新日期：2002-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) technique was developed for the simultaneous determination of five non-steroidal anti-inflammatory oxicam drugs (ampiroxicam, tenoxicam, piroxicam, meloxicam and lornoxicam) in human plasma. These five oxicam drugs and isoxicam (internal stan...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Shirako J,Kawasaki M,Komine K,Kunisue Y,Terada M,Sasaki C,Irie W,Murakami C,Tonooka K,Tomobe K,Shinozuka T

更新日期：2013-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy has been used for the development of a universal method for the identification of traces of all major body fluids. Multidimensional spectroscopic signatures, which account for the intrinsic sample heterogeneity and variations between donors, have been described for blood, semen, saliva, vaginal flui...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： McLaughlin G,Lednev IK

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 27,000 infants studied prospectively to characterize their sleep-wake behavior, 38 infants died suddenly and unexpectedly under 6 months of age. Of these, 26 died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), 5 from congenital cardiac abnormalities, 2 from infected pulmonary dysplasia, 2 from septic shock with multi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sawaguchi T,Franco P,Kato I,Shimizu S,Kadhim H,Groswasser J,Sottiaux M,Togari H,Kobayashi M,Nishida H,Sawaguchi A,Kahn A

更新日期：2002-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments in the month of September 2005 were performed to study nocturnal larviposition by the flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Two species namely Sarcophaga albiceps Meigen and Sarcophaga hirtipes Wiedemann were observed to deposit their larvae during night time as well. Therefore, possibility of night larvip...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Singh D,Bharti M

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the high use of inkjet printing in forgery cases, the classification of inkjet printing is particularly important in questioned document examination. In this work, a universal GC-MS method has been developed to analyze various ink components extracted from inkjet printouts. The results indicated that sever...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lian Z,Yang R,Zhao L,Shi G,Liang L,Qin D,Zou J,Yin B

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have mentioned to the high percentage of violent deaths in prison psychiatric hospitals, with suicide being the principal cause. The aim of this study was to analyze the circumstances related with the deaths recorded in a high security institution. Postmortem reports on all the deaths at the Alicante ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Pérez-Cárceles MD,Iñigo C,Luna A,Osuna E

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The impetus to begin a legal investigation or prosecution of the crime of genocide is a "trigger mechanism," which serves as the prima facie case against the accused state or actor. Unlike domestic cases of homicide, the trigger mechanisms for international genocide investigations to date have not included any forensi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Komar D,Parra RC,Jundi SE

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammunition is typically composed of a lead-based priming mixture which contributes to the characteristics most commonly used for the identification of gunshot residue (GSR). Due to the health risks often associated with lead, the use of lead-free primers in ammunitions is becoming more popular. Thus, the presence of G...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Terry M,Fookes B,Bridge CM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Databases have been used to record data in forensic science, such as fingerprints, shoeprints, and photos. In traditional databases, we use "text" as the "keyword" for retrieving data (text-keyword retrieval); however, in some applications, "text" is not proper to describe the searching target, and in this case, "imag...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wen CY,Yao JY

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two rapid and reliable electrophoretic techniques for PGM1 and EsD typing on ultrathin polyacrylamide gels are described. They have been based on non-equilibrium pH gradient electrophoresis and on the addition of chemical spacers (EPPS for PGM1 and HEPES for EsD) to the gel mixture. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Destro-Bisol G,Spinella A

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillary high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was combined with frit fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry (MS) and a detailed procedure has been established for on-line analysis of cefaclor in human serum. The capillary column (0.3 mm i.d.) enabled the introduction of entire effluent to the frit int...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sato K,Kobayashi K,Moore CM,Mizuno Y,Katsumata Y

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately determine injury dimensions is an essential property of forensic documentation. The current standard for injury documentation is photography using a scale to approximate the injury dimensions in the image. The technical qualities of the photograph, such as orthogonality, depth of the field an...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Koller S,Ebert LC,Martinez RM,Sieberth T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of biological and chemical tests have been developed over the years to determine whether a person was drowned. This study focuses on the potential of a microbiological test for detecting common bacterial markers of water faecal pollution such as faecal coliforms (FC) and faecal streptococci (FS) as possible i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lucci A,Campobasso CP,Cirnelli A,Lorenzini G

更新日期：2008-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of fibres under outdoor conditions is seldom investigated. This research aimed to study simultaneously the influence of several factors (and their cross-interactions) on the persistence of fibres on static textile surfaces. In order to achieve this aim, a design of experiments was successfully implemen...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Prod'Hom A,Werner D,Lepot L,Massonnet G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By definition, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) requires diagnosis through exclusion by conducting an autopsy. To obtain a reliable diagnosis of this disease, an autopsy is essential. However, the frequency with which autopsies are conducted in Japan is not sufficient to meet the need associated with the diagnosis ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sawaguchi A,Sawaguchi T,Matoba R,Togari H,Nakagawa S,Miyauchi J,Nishida H

更新日期：2002-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-mortem redistribution of a number of psychiatric drugs was investigated. A portion of liver, the gastric contents and blood collected from heart and femoral sites was obtained from 13 cases and analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Drugs detected included five selective serotonin reuptake inhib...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rodda KE,Drummer OH

更新日期：2006-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In a differential study to distinguish bruises from putrefactive discoloration, glycophorin A, a component of the erythrocyte membrane, was extracted from discolored skins and detected by immunological methods utilizing an anti-glycophorin A serum. Skin samples of 18 bruises, 8 postmortem hypostasises and 7 putrefacti...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kibayashi K,Hamada K,Honjyo K,Tsunenari S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A frequent request of a prosecutor referring to forensic autopsy is to determine the mechanism of an injury and to identify the weapons used to cause those injuries. This task could be problematic in many ways, including changes in the primary injury caused by medical intervention and the process of healing. To accomp...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Woźniak K,Rzepecka-Woźniak E,Moskała A,Pohl J,Latacz K,Dybała B

更新日期：2012-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported here is a very rare case in which the bruises were caused to the lower anterior region of the right thigh by the impact of the rim of a scooter's seat made up of a slightly flexible plastic sheet covered with artificial leather. The bruises depicted the pattern of the subjacent lower end of the femur and the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wankhede AG

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-year-old woman was found dead at home. She was single, foreign national, chronic alcoholic, and had given shelter to a compatriot for three days. This man found the deceased in her bed, after a night of heavy drinking. The emergency medical team observed numerous recent blue ecchymoses of the upper limbs. Because...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dedouit F,Piercecchi-Marti MD,Leonetti G,Rougé D,Telmon N

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:When a gun is fired, the majority of gunshot residues are deposited on the shooter's hands. But these residues disappear through contact with surfaces or washing. Therefore, the maximum time frame to find GSR on a suspect's hands is 8h. The mucus, inside of a nostril, forms a surface layer where they are trapped forei...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Aliste M,Chávez LG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of the human brain at high strain rate were investigated to analyse the mechanisms that cause backspatter when a cranial gunshot wound occurs. Different concentrations of gelatine and a new material (M1) developed in this work were tested and compared to bovine brain samples. Kinetic energy a...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lazarjan MS,Geoghegan PH,Jermy MC,Taylor M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00