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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology

Issue 3/2017

Content (26 Articles)

Editorial

Anaphylaxis at autopsy

Roger W. Byard

Original Article

Chronology of mineralization of the permanent mandibular second molar teeth and forensic age estimation

Pedro Fins, Maria Lurdes Pereira, Américo Afonso, Daniel Pérez-Mongiovi, Inês Morais Caldas

Original Article

Accuracy of non-contrast PMCT for determining cause of death

Garyfalia Ampanozi, Yannick A. Thali, Wolf Schweitzer, Gary M. Hatch, Lars C. Ebert, Michael J. Thali, Thomas D. Ruder

Original Article

HRM and SNaPshot as alternative forensic SNP genotyping methods

Bhavik Mehta, Runa Daniel, Dennis McNevin

Original Article

Virtopsy shows a high status funerary treatment in an early 18th Dynasty non-royal individual

Robert D. Loynes, Philippe Charlier, Philippe Froesch, Tobias M. R. Houlton, Rudy Lallo, Giancarlo Di Vella, Raffaella Bianucci

Original Article

Expression of Hsp27 and Hsp70 and vacuolization in the pituitary glands in cases of fatal hypothermia

Elke Doberentz, Philipp Markwerth, Rebecca Wagner, Burkhard Madea

Open Access Original Article

Blowfly puparia in a hermetic container: survival under decreasing oxygen conditions

Anna Mądra-Bielewicz, Katarzyna Frątczak-Łagiewska, Szymon Matuszewski

Original Article

Retrospective analysis of 769 cases of sudden cardiac death from 2006 to 2015: a forensic experience in China

Zijiao Ding, Mingzhen Yang, Yunyun Wang, Shifan Wu, Xingang Qiu, Qian Liu

Review

Increasing the reach of forensic genetics with massively parallel sequencing

Bruce Budowle, Sarah E. Schmedes, Frank R. Wendt

Case Report

A case of fatal idiosyncratic reaction to the designer drug 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and review of the literature

Brigitte Desharnais, Yann Dazé, Laura M. Huppertz, Pascal Mireault, Cameron D. Skinner

Case Report

Nonfatal and fatal intoxications with pure caffeine – report of three different cases

Jan Magdalan, Marcin Zawadzki, Rafał Skowronek, Magdalena Czuba, Barbara Porębska, Tomasz Sozański, Paweł Szpot

Case Report

Body pushing, prescription drugs and hospital admission

Roger W. Byard, Michaela Kenneally

Case Report

Methamphetamine-induced toxic leukoencephalopathy: clinical, radiological and autopsy findings

Jiao Mu, Meiyu Li, Ying Guo, Bin Lv, Mingjie Qiu, Hongmei Dong

Case Report

Unexpected brain finding in pre-autopsy postmortem CT

Vasiliki Chatzaraki, Stephan A. Bolliger, Michael J. Thali, Sebastian Eggert, Thomas D. Ruder

Case Report

Antemortem identification by fusion of MR and CT of the paranasal sinuses

Jakob Heimer, Dominic Gascho, Simon Gentile, Gary M. Hatch, Michael J. Thali, Thomas D. Ruder

Technical Report

Black cracks: staining of fracture lines

Sarah Scheirs, Assumpció Malgosa, Ignasi Galtés

Technical Report

Autopsy histopathology where the prosector is not a histopathologist: a proposal

Mohammed Madadin, Rihab Molah, Stephen Cordner

Commentary

Drowning deaths in rivers

Roger W. Byard

Images in Forensics

Cutaneous manifestations of lightning strike – variability in Lichtenberg figures

Roger W. Byard, Min Thu, John D. Gilbert

Letter to the Editor

Drowning and near drowning in rivers

Roger W. Byard

Letter to the Editor

Response to “regarding the sudden death of a juvenile with rare TdT-negative T-LBL/T-ALL, splenic rupture, and mediastinal mass”

Dominic Gascho, Sarah Schaerli, Michael J. Thali, Stephan A. Bolliger