Morphological damage to the central nervous system (CNS) following open heart surgery.

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of seasonal variables on decomposition in the early post-mortem period using 26 donated human cadavers at the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility (ARF), USA. The rate and pattern of decomposition in human cadavers (as measured by TBS and the revised TBSsurf metho...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Giles SB,Harrison K,Errickson D,Márquez-Grant N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost 6 million people died in Poland during the Nazi occupation and about 570 thousand during the Soviet occupation. But the end of the war was not the end of the trauma. Historians estimate that at least 30 thousand people were killed during the Stalinist regime in Poland. In 2012 the Institute of National Remembra...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ossowski A,Diepenbroek M,Zwolski M,Falis A,Wróbel M,Bykowska-Witowska M,Zielińska G,Szargut M,Kupiec T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of ethanol in the blood, vitreous humour and aqueous humour of the rabbit after intravenous administration of single dose have been compared. Ethanol levels were determined by gas-liquid chromatography. Certain parallelism between ethanol levels in these body fluids were observed after 80 min. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fernández P,López-Rivadulla M,Liñares JM,Tato F,Bermejo AM

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrion insect succession patterns have long been used to estimate the postmortem interval (PMI) during a death investigation. However, no published carrion succession study included sufficient replication to calculate a confidence interval about a PMI estimate based on occurrence data. We exposed 53 pig carcasses (16...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Perez AE,Haskell NH,Wells JD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of rare disease may be useful in the identification of unknown remains. Osteodystrophy is a condition commonly associated with chronic renal failure. The presence of renal osteodystrophy and medical artifacts associated with the treatment of kidney failure in human remains may provide information about the in...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： London MR,Libbey NP,Shemin DG,Chazan JA

更新日期：1994-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine abuse is widespread all over the world, and is performed generally by sniffing, injecting or smoking cocaine or crack. The distinction between the recreational use of cocaine from the practice of the so called "coqueo" is still an issue in those countries where this habit is diffused and where it is not consid...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rubio C,Strano-Rossi S,Tabernero MJ,Anzillotti L,Chiarotti M,Bermejo AM

更新日期：2013-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Debrisoquine hydroxylase (CYP2D6) is involved in the metabolism of many toxicologically important drugs. The gene encoding for this enzyme displays a polymorphic distribution in all populations examined. We report a study on 46 cases, where analyses of the CYP2D6 gene were conducted on postmortem femoral blood in orde...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Druid H,Holmgren P,Carlsson B,Ahlner J

更新日期：1999-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In bitemark analysis the extent of distortion of both maxillary and mandibular arches and how one affects the other has not been studied. A single dentition was used to create 49 bites on unembalmed cadavers. Landmarks were placed on digital images of the bitemarks and scanned images of the biting dentition. A sample ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sheets HD,Bush PJ,Bush MA

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Age estimation is widely applied in several clinical and forensic fields. The radiographic evaluation of dental development is one of the most accepted tools for this purpose. Among the different methods proposed, Demirjian's method was the most extensively used and tested in the medical literature revealing that the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bagattoni S,D'Alessandro G,Gatto MR,Piana G

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Death in the "microwave oven" has nothing to do with microwaves energy. It is the jargon name given to a criminal form of execution by carbonization that has been adopted by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The goal is to torture and intimidate victims, in an attempt of corpse occultation and to make identific...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Durão C,Machado MP,Daruge Júnior E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V. M. E. was evacuated when he was a young boy in 1939. He left an aunt and cousins in Spain (G. E. family). He was adopted in Belgium by the D. family and thus his new name became V. D. He has been unable to remember his childhood before his adoption, a symptomatology compatible with amnesia for personal identity, pr...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Puig P,Barceló A,Lahoz R,Niubó À,Jiménez J,Soler-López M,Donovan MJ,Navarro J,Camps J,Garcia-Caldés M,Etxeberria F,Miró R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA STR profiles have been generated from 1 ng and low copy number (LCN) templates using 28 and 34 cycles of amplification, respectively. Characteristics which facilitate the interpretation of profiles, such as heterozygous balance, allelic dropout and stutter proportions have been quantified. We demonstrate that a re...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Whitaker JP,Cotton EA,Gill P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the first reported death involving ocfentanil, a potent synthetic opioid and structure analogue of fentanyl abused as a new psychoactive substance in the recreational drug scene. A 17-year-old man with a history of illegal substance abuse was found dead in his home after snorting a brown powder pu...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Coopman V,Cordonnier J,De Leeuw M,Cirimele V

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compilations of substances detected in fatal intoxications are important in order to observe changes in intoxication patterns, to monitor effects of preventive work and to discover new trends in drug usage. The aim of the present study was to describe the current pattern of substances detected in fatal intoxications i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jönsson A,Holmgren P,Ahlner J

更新日期：2004-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Forensic odontologists are involved in all phases of disaster victim identification (DVI). The failure of DVI management to embed odontology teams within all phases of the investigation and to include them in management decisions throughout the operation may lead to delays in the reconciliation process and could possi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Hill AJ,Hewson I,Lain R

更新日期：2011-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present population genetic data of 10 X-chromosome STRs (DXS8378, DXS9898, DXS8377, HPRTB, GATA172D05, DXS7423, DXS6809, DXS7132, DXS101 and DXS6789) obtained from sample of 145 unrelated female individuals belonging to Valencia (Spain), a region located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula. All the m...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Aler M,Sánchez-Diz P,Gomes I,Gisbert M,Carracedo A,Amorim A,Gusmão L

更新日期：2007-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusion and trends in use of each substance is a basic information in policy planning of strategies aiming at deterrence of drug abuse or in the organization of the fight against drug trafficking. The actual diffusion of illicit drugs in a population is hardly measurable, but, among the various measures availabl...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Mari F,Politi L,Biggeri A,Accetta G,Trignano C,Di Padua M,Bertol E

更新日期：2009-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of condom traces has recently been added to the standard forensic examination protocol of sexual assault and rape cases. Several recent studies have thus focussed on the detection of condom components and classification of the chemical profiles using statistics, obtaining very promising results. The purpo...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Burnier C,Massonnet G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Road accident reconstruction by simulation represents an important step to determine what happened, as well as responsibilities of subjects involved in the event. To allow the reconstruction, a large variety of well-established simulative approaches are available on the market, e.g., impulse-momentum models, finite el...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vangi D,Begani F,Spitzhüttl F,Gulino MS

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teeth are recently drawing attention for their potential as biological modeling investigation samples due to their ability to be collected and their slow substance metabolism. There is no active metabolism of elements after the completion of dentin. Dentin is surrounded by enamel and cementum, and is not affected by t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kumagai A,Fujita Y,Endo S,Itai K

更新日期：2012-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicides with chain saws and circular saws are extreme exceptions, in particular with regard to females and concerning the neck region. We report two of such rare cases involving young women. A 30-year-old female with a known schizoaffective psychosis killed herself with an electric chain saw. The autopsy revealed a d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Grellner W,Wilske J

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptions and differentiating factors in post-torture lesions are described and discussed, from the point of view of the medical examination of persons alleging physical abuse of human rights. The lesions caused by various methods of torture are described. The material and expertise is drawn from a long experience ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Forrest D

更新日期：1995-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and seventy nine cases of acute poisoning constituting 1.1% of all admissions to the medical unit over 3 years were analysed. Eighty-three per cent of the patients were under 30 years of age and 72% were males. The common agents were: OP insecticides in 51%, kerosene oil in 12%, rat poison in 8% and drugs ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Senanayake N,Karalliedde L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of the secular trend on development of third molars in 30 years period in Littoral region of Croatia. A total of 1103 panoramic radiographs of subjects aged from 6 to 18 years were analysed. First group comprised 531 panoramic radiographs (258 girls) taken from y...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sasso A,Legovic M,Mady Maricic B,Pavlic A,Spalj S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We often refer to road fatalities without knowing exactly what injuries are responsible for them. Based on the Rhône Road Trauma Registry this paper sets out to describe the topography, nature and frequency of the fatal injuries sustained by car drivers. Mean annual mortality at the wheel of a car, computed by dividin...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ndiaye A,Chambost M,Chiron M

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair, larvae and cardiac muscle, the only biological samples present on a skeletonized human body found in a rural area, were used for forensic toxicological analyses in order to determine possible causes of death. Since no information about the victim or the circumstances of death was available (except for the place ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Basilicata P,Pieri M,Simonelli A,Faillace D,Niola M,Graziano V

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to inadequacies in historical hair examinations, the use and perceived value of microscopic hair evidence has reduced. Many reports have heavily criticised the use of pattern-based evidence including hair evidence as being unreliable, with police forces focussing on more individualising evidence. Hair evidence has...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wilkinson L,Gwinnett C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi colonizing cadavers are capable of drug metabolism and may thus change the metabolite pattern or concentration of drugs in forensic postmortem samples. The purpose of this study was to check for the presence of such changes by searching fungi-specific metabolites of four model drugs (amitriptyline, metoprolol, m...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Martínez-Ramírez JA,Strien J,Walther G,Peters FT

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ingestion of an unknown quantity of U 46 D-Fluid (500 g dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/l) in a suicide is described. Although 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4 D) is widely used as a herbicide, intoxications are relatively rare. Quantitation of 2,4-D was performed by diethyl ether extraction from acidified samples (v...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Keller T,Skopp G,Wu M,Aderjan R

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00