Kim, Dae Geon Choi, Hae-Sung Lee, Tae Hwan Na, Joo-Young
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS) are important evaluation tools used in clinical practice to determine the degree of injury in patients with trauma. However, they are not suitable for forensic practice and their use in forensic applications is limited. This study aimed to present a system that can objectively and q...
Habek, Dubravko
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Women sexual violence as a gynecological, social-criminological and gynecological problem has no declining trend in developing and developed countries, including in Croatia. From my own 23-year forensic-gynecological expertises practice, along with the results of legally completed examples of sexual abuses, as a contribution to this problem, which ...
Kumar, Pulagura Siva Sai Meshram, Vikas Kanchan, Tanuj
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Garland, Jack Thompson, Melissa Thompson, Isabella Olumbe, Alex Tse, Rexson
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Cardiac ventricular dimensions measured at postmortem examination are used to assess whether there is hypertrophy of the heart chambers. However, there is no clear consensus on where these measurements should be taken. Some have proposed this should be measured at the mid-ventricular level, but others advocate it should be measured at a set distanc...
Loiseau, Mélanie Guerard, Pascal Paraf, François François-Purssell, Irène Gilard-Pioc, Séverine
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Denial of pregnancy is a rare psychic process associated with an increased risk of infant death. Forensic examinations to determine viability at birth can heavily influence the legal proceedings in cases of clandestine deliveries that result in the death of the infant. A 32-year-old woman who experienced a denial of pregnancy up to 30 weeks of amen...
Wang, Qian Yin, Min Shi, Qing Duan, Yijie Zhao, Shuquan Zhou, Yiwu
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Fatal pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) following percutaneous vertebroplasty is rare in medical practice. Here, we report the case of a 70-year-old woman who suffered from lumbago with lower extremity pain and lameness and for whom lumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (L4, L5) were seen on MRI examination. Percutaneous vertebroplasty ...
Xu, Hongfei Huang, Ping Shi, Xiaoling Wang, Zhiyong Zhang, Zhixiang Zhu, Shaohua
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) is encountered less frequently in infancy than various other congenital cardiac anomalies. We present a 4-week-old boy with a hitherto unreported variant of TAPVD who died suddenly soon after presentation to our emergency department. At autopsy, we found both pulmonary veins draining abnormally into...
Kumar, Naveen Bv, Murlimanju Bhaskar, Ravi Aithal, Ashwini P Rao, Mohandas Kg Bhat, Kumar Mr
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Morphometrics of the hard palate is an important aspect of forensic anthropology and odontology. Palatine triangle is a triangular area in the hard palate formed by the palatine processes of the maxillae, which can aid intraoral bone grafts. We present the osteological measurements of the palatine triangle (maxillary palate) based on sex, compare i...
Slocum, Sarah Fiorillo, Matthew Harding, Eric Owen, Julie Long, Ruby Dunn, Thom Martin, Ian
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Excited delirium syndrome (ExDS) is a controversial and disputed diagnosis involving altered mentation, agitation, and, frequently, substance abuse. Recently, it has become a common pre-hospital diagnosis, serving as justification for use of force, restraint, and/or medication administration. To conduct a scoping review across three databases to de...
Casadesús, Josep M Nieto-Moragas, Javier Serrando, Maria T Boadas-Vaello, Pere Carrera, Ana Aguirre, Fernando Tubbs, R Shane Reina, Francisco
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Forensic science, medicine, and pathology
Arterial gas embolism following pulmonary barotrauma occurs in 13-24% of cases of diving deaths. The study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of a histomorphometric digital analysis in the detection of air space over-distension due to pulmonary barotrauma. The study was performed on lung parenchyma specimens of 12 divers: six had died due to arterial...
