Tsokos Michael. Forensic Pathology Reviews. Volume 1

Springer, 2004. — XII, 367 p.Over the last decade, the field of forensic science has expanded enormously. The critical subfield of forensic pathology is essentially based on a transverse, multiorgan approach that includes autopsy, histology (comprising neuropathological examination), immunohistochemistry, bacteriology, DNA techniques, and toxicology to resolve obscure fatalities. The expansion of the field has not only contributed to the understanding and interpretation of many pathological findings, the recognition of injury causality, and the availability of new techniques in both autopsy room and laboratories, but also has produced specific new markers for many pathological conditions within the wide variety of traumatic and nontraumatic deaths with which the forensic pathologist deals.
The Forensic Pathology Reviews series is designed to reflect this expansion and to provide up-to-date knowledge on special topics in the field, focusing closely on the dynamic and rapidly growing evolution of medical science and law. Individual chapters present a problem-oriented approach to a central issue of forensic pathology. A comprehensive review of the international literature that is otherwise difficult to assimilate is given in each chapter. Insights into new diagnostic techniques and their application, at a high level of evidential proof, to the investigation of death will surely provide helpful guidance and stimulus to all those involved with death investigation.Morphological Findings in Burned Bodies.
Kicking and Trampling to Death: Pathological Features, Biomechanical Mechanisms, and Aspects of Victims and Perpetrators.
Timing of Cortical Contusions in Human Brain Injury: Morphological Parameters for a Forensic Wound-Age Estimation.
Central Nervous System Alterations in Drug Abuse.
A Forensic Pathological Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death.
Medicolegal Problems With Neonaticide.
Diagnostic and Medicolegal Problems With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Fatal Respiratory Tract Infections With Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Pathological Features of Waterhouse–Friderichsen Syndrome in Infancy and Childhood.
Accidental Autoerotic Death: A Review on the Lethal Paraphiliac Syndrome.
Lethal Hypothermia: Paradoxical Undressing and Hide-and-Die-Syndrome Can Produce Very Obscure Death Scenes.
Pathological Features of Maternal Death From HELLP Syndrome.
Injuries Resulting From Resuscitation Procedures.
Postmortem Alcohol Interpretation: Medicolegal Considerations Affecting Living and Deceased Persons.
Muscle Hemorrhage Presenting at Autopsy.