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JournalISSN: 1344-6223

Legal Medicine 

Elsevier BV
About: Legal Medicine is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Poison control. It has an ISSN identifier of 1344-6223. Over the lifetime, 2278 publications have been published receiving 27569 citations.


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TL;DR: This review considers methods appropriate for age estimation in both juvenile and adult remains; the former being primarily based on developmental, and the latter degenerative, morphological features.

260 citations

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TL;DR: The paper will give an overview of the Virtopsy change process in forensic medicine and the project VIRTOPSY combining the research topics under one scientific umbrella.

198 citations

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TL;DR: The characteristics of postmortem forensic imaging are disclosed; an overview of the several possible findings in postmortem imaging, which are uncommon or new to clinical radiologists are given; and the possible pitfalls are discussed.

190 citations

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TL;DR: Key technologies that may facilitate the identification process are discussed, such as resin based DNA extraction, real-time PCR for quantitation of DNA, use of mini-STRs, SNP detection procedures, and software.

175 citations

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TL;DR: This study shows that the double swab technique improves the quality of the resulting DNA profiles and is recommended for recovering touched evidence at crime scenes.

171 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202375
2022176
2021135
2020107
201983
201896