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  1. 01-09-2015 | OriginalPaper

    Virtual anthropology: useful radiological tools for age assessment in clinical forensic medicine and thanatology

    Virtual anthropology consists of the introduction of modern slice imaging to biological and forensic anthropology. Thanks to this non-invasive scientific revolution, some classifications and staging systems, first based on dry bone analysis, can …

  2. Open Access 01-12-2024 | Brain Death | ReviewPaper

    Brain death: a review

    Thanatology is known as the scientific study of death and the related practices, as well as the study of the requirements of the terminally ill and their families. The medico-legal dilemmas concerning the description of death are not new [ 10 ].

  3. Open Access 13-12-2023 | Artificial Intelligence | ReviewPaper

    Artificial intelligence in the practice of forensic medicine: a scoping review

    Forensic medicine is a thriving application field for artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, AI applications intended to forensic pathologists or forensic physicians have emerged since the last decade. For example, AI models were developed to help …

  4. Open Access 09-04-2024 | External Post-Mortem Examination | Online First

    External post-mortem examination in virtual reality—scalability of a monocentric application

    Conducting external post-mortem examinations is an essential skill required of physicians in various countries, regardless of their specialization. However, the quality of these examinations has been a subject of continuous debates, and notable …

  5. 02-01-2024 | Thanatology | Online First

    Estimation of the postmortem interval from histological changes in the lingual tissue: Need for further exploration

  6. Open Access 26-04-2023 | Computed Tomography | OriginalPaper

    Post-mortem changes of the vascular system—a thanatological study using multidetector computed tomography

    Forensic pathologists have to deal with post-mortem changes of the human body. Those post-mortem phenomena are familiar and largely described in thanatology. However, knowledge about the influence of post-mortem phenomena on the vascular system is …

  7. Open Access 01-12-2022 | Thanatology | OriginalPaper

    Dental needs in palliative care and problems in dental hygienist education: survey study of palliative care ward homepage, university syllabus, and academic conference abstracts

    The World Health Organization (WHO) defined palliative care in 2002 as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with a life-threatening illness and described that this was achieved …

  8. Open Access 17-04-2024 | Pathology | Online First

    Current status of undergraduate teaching in forensic & legal medicine in Europe

    The European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) is the body established in 1992 to represent practitioners forensic & legal medicine and is composed of delegates of the countries of the European Union (EU) and from other countries which form part of …

  9. 03-01-2024 | Polymerase Chain Reaction | Online First

    The use of vitreous humour as a potential source of DNA for postmortem identification in forensic science

    Vitreous humour (VH) is routinely collected for toxicological analyses. However, only a few studies have examined its possible use in genotyping. Because of its isolation from the rest of the body, later onset of postmortem changes, and …

  10. 31-03-2023 | Care | ReviewPaper

    Interprofessional Specialty Palliative Care Education and Training

    Palliative care is “patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional …

  11. Open Access 28-01-2023 | OriginalPaper

    From Deutsche Zeitschrift to International Journal of Legal Medicine—100 years of legal medicine through the lens of journal articles

    Part 3: Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin—Journal of Legal Medicine from 1970 to 1990

    From volume 67 (1970) onwards, the journal appeared under the new bilingual title Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin—Journal of Legal Medicine. The editorial board was expanded and internationalised. From 1970 to 1990, 1416 articles were published in …

  12. 01-02-2020 | Thanatology | OriginalPaper

    “Care for the Common Home”: Responses to Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter

    This article aims to build awareness of the growing global crisis in social, economic and environmental terms from different disciplinary approaches. The authors respond to the message of Pope Francis presented in his Encyclical Letter published …

  13. Open Access 30-09-2022 | OriginalPaper

    From Deutsche Zeitschrift to International Journal of Legal Medicine—100 years of legal medicine through the lens of journal articles

    Part 1: Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin from 1922 to 1944

    From its launc h in 1922 to the end of the Second World War, the Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin spanned 38 volumes. The 1762 papers contained in those volumes reflect contemporary interests and include many papers from …

  14. Open Access 14-11-2022 | OriginalPaper

    From Deutsche Zeitschrift to International Journal of Legal Medicine—100 years of legal medicine through the lens of journal articles

    Part 2: Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin from 1948 to 1969

    The interruption of the publication of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin due to the war ended with volume 39 for the years 1948/1949. Until volume 66/1969, the journal appeared unchanged under the historical title. The …

  15. Open Access 20-06-2023 | Forensic Radiology | Online First

    Under-reporting of forensic findings: craniocervical emergency imaging in cases of survived hanging

    To determine the diagnostic bias between clinical and forensic radiology in cases of nonfatal hanging and determine and describe typical underreported imaging findings. In a retrospective, single-center study, all patients admitted for attempted …

  16. Open Access 01-12-2023 | Autopsy | OriginalPaper

    The epidemiological and medico-legal characteristics of violent deaths and spousal homicides through a population of women autopsied within the Forensic Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Annaba

    The mortality of women, and more particularly that which occurs as a result of domestic violence, represents a real public health problem with lethal consequences. The international literature on spousal homicide is poor and the references are …

  17. Open Access 01-12-2023 | OriginalPaper

    An interpersonal neurobiology perspective on the mind and mental health: personal, public, and planetary well-being

    This article outlines an Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) perspective on the fundamental components that comprise mental health and promote well-being. The central aim of this paper is to answer essential but often overlooked questions related to …

  18. 05-11-2022 | Arthropods | OriginalPaper

    Decomposition and insect succession on human cadavers in a humid, continental (Dfb) climate (Quebec, Canada)

    Forensic entomology has been developing globally for decades. Despite this discipline being used in criminal investigations around the world, only a few controlled studies have been performed on human cadavers in human decomposition facilities …

  19. Open Access 01-12-2019 | Autopsy | OriginalPaper

    The dating of thrombus organization in cases of pulmonary embolism: an autopsy study

    Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common cardiovascular disease with high mortality rate worldwide [ 1 ]. It refers to a development of blood clots mostly into deep veins of lower extremities in absence of traumatic injury as deep vein thrombosis …

  20. Open Access 01-12-2019 | Care | OriginalPaper

    How to come to terms with facing death: a qualitative study examining the experiences of patients with terminal Cancer

    In 2011, 37.4% patients who died worldwide could have benefitted from specialist palliative care [ 1 ]. Additionally, more than 34% of adults in need of palliative care eventually died due to cancer [ 1 ]. Thus, the need for palliative care for …

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