Skip to main content
Top

Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology

Issue 2/2016

Content (28 Articles)

Original Article

Novel identification of biofluids using a multiplex methylation-specific PCR combined with single-base extension system

Yu-Chih Lin, Li-Chin Tsai, James Chun-I Lee, Kuo-Lan Liu, Jason Tze-Cheng Tzen, Adrian Linacre, Hsing-Mei Hsieh

Original Article

Reliability of body size measurements obtained at autopsy: impact on the pathologic assessment of the heart

Carmen A. McCormack, Roberto Lo Gullo, Mannudeep K. Kalra, Abner Louissaint Jr., James R. Stone

Open Access Original Article

Hyoid bone fusion and bone density across the lifespan: prediction of age and sex

Ellie Fisher, Diane Austin, Helen M. Werner, Ying Ji Chuang, Edward Bersu, Houri K. Vorperian

Original Article

Catecholamines and their O-methylated metabolites in vitreous humor in hypothermia cases

Tania Hervet, Grzegorz Teresiński, Petr Hejna, Emilienne Descloux, Eric Grouzmann, Cristian Palmiere

Case Report

Natural death in the setting of autoerotic practice

Yeliena Baber, Eleanor Bott

Case Report

Unexpected fatal outcome of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

Alžbeta Ginelliová, Daniel Farkaš, Silvia Farkašová Iannaccone, Vlasta Vyhnálková

Technical Report

Cardiac troponin T determination by a highly sensitive assay in postmortem serum and pericardial fluid

Lucas González-Herrera, Aurora Valenzuela, Valentín Ramos, Antonia Blázquez, Enrique Villanueva

Technical Report

Renal markers cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in postmortem samples

Terhi Keltanen, Anna-Mari Walta, Satu Salonen, Antti Sajantila, Katarina Lindroos

Commentary

Hippocampal abnormalities and sudden childhood death

Paul A. Rutecki, Thomas P. Sutula

Open Access Commentary

Hippocampal abnormalities and sudden childhood death

Colin Smith

Commentary

A rare report of fatal torture

Stephen Cordner

Images in Forensics

Sudden death following endomyocardial biopsy of cardiac metastasis from malignant melanoma

Matthew J. Lynch, Sarah Parsons, Noel W. F. Woodford

Lessons from the Museum

Into the wax: forensic and anthropological analysis of human hairs in Merovingian and Carolingian royal seals (France)

Philippe Charlier, Marie-Adélaïde Nielen, Anaïs Augias, Agnès Prévost, Raphaël Weil, Britta McMullan-Weitzel

Letter to the Editor

Post-mortem Takotsubo cardiomyopathy diagnosis: the challenge is open!

Francesca Indorato, Giovanni Bartoloni

Letter to the Editor

An Association of Hippocampal Malformations and Sudden Death? We Need More Data

Michael J. Ackerman, Thomas A. Andrew, Andrew M. Baker, Orrin Devinsky, James Claude Upshaw Downs, Thomas Keens, Joanne Kuntz, Peter Lin, Kelly C. Lear-Kaul, Ross Reichard, Deborah A. Robinson

Letter to the Editor

Response to Letter to the Editor from Ackerman MJ, et al.

Marco M. Hefti, Hannah C. Kinney, Jane B. Cryan, Elizabeth A. Haas, Amy E. Chadwick, Felicia L. Trachtenberg, Dawna D. Armstrong, Marjorie Grafe, Henry F. Krous

Letter to the Editor

Manner of death associated with autoerotic practice

Roger W. Byard

Letter to the Editor

More on the strength of evidence in forensic pathology

Marijke Buiskool, Hubert G. T. Nijs, Wouter A. Karst, Charles E. H. Berger