abstract：:Immunohistochemistry is a well-established technique used in many research laboratories as well as in clinical diagnostics. The method allows to visualize the expression of proteins in biological tissues, as well as to evaluate this expression semi-quantitatively. For diagnosis, an optimal staining, based on a straigh...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Sabatasso S,Pomponio C,Fracasso T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)-related injuries and factors involved in their occurrence, data based on forensic autopsy and postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) during implementation of the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR were studied. METHODS:We retrospectiv...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Yamaguchi R,Makino Y,Chiba F,Torimitsu S,Yajima D,Inokuchi G,Motomura A,Hashimoto M,Hoshioka Y,Shinozaki T,Iwase H

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequencies and forensic parameters for 17 autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci were investigated from 1542 individuals of Va ethnic minority in Yunnan Province in the southwest of China. Also, genetic distances between Va and 13 published populations were compared, and a neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Guo F

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxical undressing is a phenomenon characterizing some fatal hypothermia cases. The victims, despite low environmental temperatures, paradoxically remove their clothes due to a sudden feeling of warmth. In this report, we describe a case of suspected paradoxical undressing in a non-hypothermia case. The victim, a ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Descloux E,Ducrot K,Scarpelli MP,Lobrinus A,Palmiere C

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medico-legal experts are increasingly enlisted to assess the methamphetamine and amphetamine serum concentrations after a criminal offense. However, since criminal users rarely provide useful information to medico-legal experts regarding the substances abused, when the substance(s) was/were used, dose of ingestion too...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Weber M,Lessig R,Richter C,Ritter AP,Weiß I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assistance provided by specialised healthcare personnel to victims of a sexual violence cannot focus just on the clinical intervention appropriate for the lesions suffered by the patient, but must also take legal and forensic needs into account. Anamnestic data represents a crucial step towards the finding of fore...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Gino S,Canavese A,Pattarino B,Robino C,Omedei M,Albanese E,Castagna P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crania are a reliable source for sex estimation in Euro-Americans, Europeans, and most other populations. Besides morphological assessments, the application of Fordisc® has become a useful tool within the last two decades, creating discriminant functions from morphometric data. Unfortunately, until now, white populati...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Manthey L,Jantz RL,Bohnert M,Jellinghaus K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood species identification is an important challenge in forensic science. Conventional methods used for blood species analysis are destructive and associated with time-consuming sample preparation steps. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is known for its nondestructive properties and fast results. This r...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Zailer E,Diehl BW,Monakhova YB

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the time of injury is an important but still a challenging task in forensic anthropology. In literature, many descriptions can be found to make a distinction between perimortem and postmortem fractures. Characteristics that are more related to fractures in fresh conditions, however, are not extensively inv...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Scheirs S,Malgosa A,Sanchez-Molina D,Ortega-Sánchez M,Velázquez-Ameijide J,Arregui-Dalmases C,Medallo-Muñiz J,Galtés I

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in forensic identification using molecular genetics are helpful in resolving some historical mysteries. The aim of this study was to confirm the authenticity of shrunken-head artifacts exhibited by two Polish museums. Shrunken heads, known as tsantsas, were headhunting trophies of South American Indians (Jiva...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Piniewska D,Sanak M,Wojtas M,Polanska N

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore the applicability of periodontal ligament visibility (PLV) at the 18-year threshold. This mandibular maturity marker is graded into four separate age related stages, PLV-A, PLV-B, PLV-C, and PLV-D. These are discernible on a dental panoramic tomograph (DPT). The sample comprise...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Lucas VS,McDonald F,Andiappan M,Roberts G

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate and precise documentation of injuries is fundamental in a forensic pathological context. Photographs and manual measurements are taken of all injuries during autopsies, but ordinary photography projects a 3D wound on a 2D space. Using technologies such as photogrammetry, it is possible to create 3D detaile...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Villa C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this multi-reader feasibility study was to evaluate new post-processing CT imaging tools in rib fracture assessment of forensic cases by analyzing detection time and diagnostic accuracy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty autopsy cases (20 with and 10 without rib fractures in autopsy) were randomly select...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Glemser PA,Pfleiderer M,Heger A,Tremper J,Krauskopf A,Schlemmer HP,Yen K,Simons D

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant exposures are among the most frequently reported cases to poison control centres worldwide. This is a growing condition due to recent societal trends oriented towards the consumption of wild plants as food, cosmetics, or medicine. At least three general causes of plant poisoning can be identified: plant misident...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Mezzasalma V,Ganopoulos I,Galimberti A,Cornara L,Ferri E,Labra M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanide (CN) blood concentration is hardly considered during routine when evaluating smoke gas intoxications and fire victims, although some inflammable materials release a considerable amount of hydrogen cyanide. CN can be significant for the capacity to act and can in the end even be the cause of death. Systematic d...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Stoll S,Roider G,Keil W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the population data of Y-chromosome STRs (Y-STRs) of Han population resided in Hunan province, we analyzed haplotypes of 26 Y-STRs (DYS19, DYS385a/b, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS481, DYS533, DYS549, DYS570, DYS576, DYS635, DYS643, DYS38...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Jiang W,Gong Z,Rong H,Guan H,Zhang T,Zhao Y,Fu X,Zha L,Jin C,Ding Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on tooth mineralization has seldom been evaluated. This is important because SES can be used as a proxy for quantifying factors in the environmental that can impact mineralization but that can be difficult to measure directly, such as nutrition. OBJECTIVE:The objec...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Carneiro JL,Caldas IM,Afonso A,Cardoso HF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warping has been used to determine the pre-burning condition of human skeletal remains. In the literature, this modification has been associated more often with the burning of fleshed and green bones, but it also arises during the burning of dry bones. The objective of this paper was to assess if bone collagen content...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Vassalo AR,Cunha E,de Carvalho LA,Gonçalves D

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) resulting from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is rarely reported and most reports are of aortic rupture. Clinical reports have also documented aortic dissection and intramural hematomas with sequential imaging showing the development of these aortic injuries after the administr...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Williams AS,Castonguay M,Murray SK

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood, saliva, and semen are some of the forensically most relevant biological stains commonly found at crime scenes, which can often be of small size or challenging due to advanced decay. In this context, it is of great importance to possess reliable knowledge about the effects of degradation under different environm...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Sirker M,Schneider PM,Gomes I

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The likelihood ratio is the fundamental quantity that summarizes the evidence in forensic cases. Therefore, it is important to understand the theoretical properties of this statistic. This paper is the last in a series of three, and the first to study linked markers. We show that for all non-inbred pairwise kinship co...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Egeland T,Slooten K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequencies and forensic statistics of 13 autosomal short tandem repeat loci were estimated in 56 unrelated Iranian individuals. Except for two loci which were monomorph, a total of 5-11 alleles at each locus were observed and altogether 94 alleles for all selected loci were found. Our results show that 11 out ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Khordadpoor Deilamani F,Akbari MT

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obese man (height, 178 cm; weight, 160 kg; body mass index, 50.5 kg/m2) with a history of recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT), cardiomyopathy, coronary sclerosis, and insulin-resistant diabetes suffered a right femur fracture in a vehicular accident. His fracture was repaired the following day, but shortly after...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Maeda H,Uramatsu M,Nakajima S,Yoshida KI

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined the biomechanical basis for backspatter from cranial gunshot wounds. Backspatter is material which travels against the direction of fire following ejection from a gunshot entrance wound. Our paper focuses on the use of animals for reconstructing this phenomenon. Five live pigs and several sla...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Radford GE,Taylor MC,Kieser JA,Waddell JN,Walsh KAJ,Schofield JC,Das R,Chakravorty E

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to measure catecholamines and their O-methylated metabolites in urine and vitreous humor collected in cardiac deaths and noncardiac control cases that underwent medicolegal investigations. Our first goal was to assess whether cardiac events of different types are characterized by different ca...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Hervet T,Grouzmann E,Grabherr S,Mangin P,Palmiere C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chumbinho is the popular name given to carbamate aldicarb (Temik), an insecticide commonly used in agriculture and highly toxic (LD50 = 0.9 mg/kg oral in rats) that has been sold clandestinely in several regions of Brazil. Chumbinho is sold illegally as raticide and is available in a formulation of small black granule...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Durão C,Machado MP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixture DNA profiles commonly appear in forensic genetics, and a large number of statistical methods and software are available for such cases. However, most of the literature concerns mixtures where the contributors are assumed unrelated and the genetic markers are unlinked. In this paper, we consider mixtures of lin...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Dørum G,Kling D,Tillmar A,Vigeland MD,Egeland T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report about the case of a sudden unexpected death of a 25-year-old male suffering from infectious disease. An autopsy was ordered with no final premortem diagnosis. Microscopic and microbiological examination revealed a pneumococcal bronchopneumonia and hemophagocytic lesions in the bone marrow. After integrating ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Ondruschka B,Habeck JO,Hädrich C,Dreßler J,Bayer R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropologists are constantly seeking to improve methods for age estimation in the human skeleton. A new method was introduced about a decade ago that assesses the morphological changes that take place in the acetabulum as an individual ages. The pelvis is usually well preserved in forensic cases, which makes this me...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Botha D,Pretorius S,Myburgh J,Steyn M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome is the unexpected demise of a child younger than 1 year of age which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy investigation. Usually, it occurs during sleep, in males, and during the first 12 weeks of life. The pathophysiological mechanism underlying the death is unknown, and the letha...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Sarquella-Brugada G,Campuzano O,Cesar S,Iglesias A,Fernandez A,Brugada J,Brugada R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) can be used to detect and adjust for population stratification and predict the ancestry of the source of an evidence sample. Autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the best candidates for AIMs. It is essential to identify the most informative AIM SNPs across relevant p...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Zeng X,Chakraborty R,King JL,LaRue B,Moura-Neto RS,Budowle B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drowning remains one of the major causes of death in most developed countries despite the fact that many of the victims are known to be at least moderate swimmers as well as healthy directly before the event. Here, fatal arrhythmias and especially the long QT syndrome (LQTS) have been proposed as the underlying mechan...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Tzimas I,Bajanowski T,Poetsch M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The semi-quantitative analysis of decomposed bone of rats exposed to colchicine and euthanized following different time intervals postexposure (i.e., dose-death interval, DDI) is described. Rats received colchicine (50 mg/kg, i.p.) and were euthanized 30 min (DDI1; n = 4), 60 min (DDI2; n = 4), or 180 min (DDI3; n = 4...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Imfeld AB,Watterson JH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing offers promise to forensic genetics. Various strategies and panels for analyzing SNP markers for individual identification have been published. However, the best panels with fewer identity SNPs for all major population groups are still under discussion. This study aimed to f...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Hwa HL,Wu LS,Lin CY,Huang TY,Yin HI,Tseng LH,Lee JC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-tube multiplex assay of a small set of ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) for effectively estimating individual ancestry and admixture is an ideal forensic tool to trace the population origin of an unknown DNA sample. We present a newly developed 27-plex single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel with highly...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Wei YL,Wei L,Zhao L,Sun QF,Jiang L,Zhang T,Liu HB,Chen JG,Ye J,Hu L,Li CX

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitragyna speciosa (Rubiaceae), commonly known as kratom, is a tropical tree with a long history of traditional use in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia. In recent years, kratom has gained popularity for use as a recreational drug across the globe. Relatively new to the illicit market and used in a manner different f...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Warner ML,Kaufman NC,Grundmann O

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to increase the validity of age estimation in adolescents and young adults when there is no legitimation for X-ray examinations, it seems desirable to be able to assess the mineralization of third molars using X-ray-free imaging procedures. In the present study, the mineralization stages of lower third molars...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Guo Y,Olze A,Ottow C,Schmidt S,Schulz R,Heindel W,Pfeiffer H,Vieth V,Schmeling A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of fatal intoxication by the application of a transdermal fentanyl patch upon a superficial bleeding abrasion of a 2-year-old girl. The grandmother discovered the body of the child in bed at approximately 7 a.m. External examination revealed a properly developed, nourished, and hydrated child, with s...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Bakovic M,Nestic M,Mayer D

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal STR loci (N = 290) and haplotype data for 17 Y-STR loci (N = 157) were determined for an admixed population from Belize. There were no detectable departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium expectations at any autosomal STR loci except for the D8S1179 locus (p = 0.002). The combined ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Flores S,Sun J,King J,Eisenberg A,Budowle B

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a multifactorial syndrome and assumingly, among other mechanisms, a deficit in respiratory control leads to a failure of arousal and autoresuscitation when the child is challenged by a stressful homeostatic event, e.g., hypoxia. We hypothesize that genetic polymorphisms involved ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Läer K,Dörk T,Vennemann M,Rothämel T,Klintschar M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00