Showing papers in "Legal Medicine in 2007"

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.

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.

TL;DR: In this review article, it has been demonstrated that collagens, cytokines, and growth factors are useful candidates and markers for the determination of wound vitality or age.

TL;DR: Estimating the stature from cephalo-facial dimensions in a sample of 252 Koli male adolescents from North India suggests that the measurements of the cephalic region have strong correlation with stature than those of the facial region.

TL;DR: This article focuses mainly on complications due to ventilation and chest compression during CPR, which include bruising and abrasions in the face and neck, injuries to the abdominal organs such as liver and spleen.

TL;DR: It is suggested that elevated cTnI and CK-MB levels in blood and pericardial fluid are related to ischemic, hypoxic and/or cytotoxic myocardial damage, which are characteristic of the cause of death, although the levels increase after death depending on myocardIAL damage at the time of death.

TL;DR: This study presents 23 cases of dismembered bodies examined by the Cracow Department of Forensic Medicine in 1968-2005 period, including 17 instances of defensive mutilation, three instances of offensive mutilation and two cases when dismemberment (decapitation) was a direct cause of death.

TL;DR: The unique anatomical and developmental features of the immature brain, skull, and neck which render young children particularly vulnerable to shearing injuries are discussed and the pathology of those injuries is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the difference between blood and pericardial levels of these markers was investigated, and the results indicated that a comparison between the pericardsial nitrogenous compounds would be useful for investigating the cause and process of death.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the total number of suicides and both the suicide and unemployment rates in Japan from 1978 to 2004, and focused on the correlation between annual suicide rates and the annual unemployment rates during the study period.

TL;DR: An analytical study to determine the presence of undeclared pharmaceuticals and therapeutic substances within CHM/CPM sold in New York City's Chinatown found drugs identified include promethazine, chlormethiazole, chlorpheniramine, diclofenac, chlordiazepoxide, hydrochlorothiazide and sildenafil citrate.

TL;DR: Sixty-seven adult hipbones of known sex belonging to South-Indian population were studied to investigate sexual dimorphism of the well established A-P index and identified 83% males accurately.

TL;DR: The characteristics of forensic autopsies of firearm-related deaths in two industrial cities of Turkey are described to provide further data for the characterisation of firearms-related fatalities in Turkey, having the remarkable scarcity of such information from Turkey in mind.

TL;DR: Population data on the hypervariable regions of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome are used to convey the relative rarity of mtDNA profiles obtained from evidence samples and of profiles used to identify missing persons.

TL;DR: Allelic frequency distribution and haplotype diversity of 17 Y-chromosomal STR from a sample of 131 unrelated individuals of Chinese Han population living in Shandong province of China were obtained and were compared with those observed in worldwide populations at both the locus and the haplotype level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied and established a DNA database of 17 Y-STRs in a population sample of 133 unrelated individuals of Salar ethnic minority group, in order to investigate haplotype frequencies of the Salar population, evaluate their usefulness in forensic applications, and enrich Chinese population genetic informational resources.

TL;DR: The data in the present study can be used greatly for routine forensic application in the region, and enrich Chinese ethnical genetic informational resources.

TL;DR: It may be warranted to include imidazoline derivatives in the testing for cases of DFSA, and an adult male repeatedly used tetrahydrozoline to induce a comatose state in an adult female and four female children for the purposes of sexual assault.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a two-rider motorcycle accident in which both riders received injuries around the groin area, and they consider traumatic testicular dislocation as one of the important findings of fuel tank injuries in motorcycle accidents.

TL;DR: The report presents a fatal poisoning with MDMA--Ecstasy of a 22-year-old male with a documented history of drug abuse and the results of macro and microscopic examinations aiming at assessing internal organ damage suggested a mild hepatic damage.

TL;DR: In this article, a total of 152 haplotypes containing 152 polymorphisms were detected using PCR and direct sequencing analysis and the haplotype diversity and random match probability were estimated to be 0.9961% and 0.87%, respectively.

TL;DR: Allele frequencies of the 15 STR loci were determined in 208 unrelated individuals from Han population living in Henan, China (central China) and all loci except D5S818 were found no deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

TL;DR: It is concluded that changes in CSF electrolyte is a significant parameter to estimate time since death.

TL;DR: Since 1999, through interagency coordination with law enforcement agencies similar to the hospital healthcare quality improvement meeting program, detailed information related to the sequence of events in these cases and ideas for improvements to prevent such deaths are discussed.

TL;DR: The AmpFlSTR Y-filer kit, including 16 Y-STRs was analyzed in 326 males from Chihuahua, at North Central, Mexico and showed that most of the genetic variability between these Mexican populations is attributable to intrapopulational differences.

TL;DR: The combination of histopathological and immunohistochemical examinations as well as analysis of the exact history of the trauma, if possible, and elimination of other causes of death would lead to accurate diagnosis of diffuse types of TBI in cases when the survival period is brief.

TL;DR: The mtDNA profiling method can provide reliable data in a time and cost-saving way due to the rapid and economical nature of APLP analysis and in most cases, reliability of the HVR data could be confirmed by haplogroup motif analysis.

TL;DR: This report reports on a case of fatal penetrating stab wounds to the skull in which a case reconstruction was only possible by combining the radiological ante- and post-mortem data with the autopsy findings.

TL;DR: This is the first simulative study to show the postmortem cooling pattern of the head of an adult human, and the head model will prove useful to predict the cooling patterns of not only the outer ear but also of the entirety of theHead.

TL;DR: DNASE1 and HumDN1polymorphisms and serum DNase I activities in each different genotype were investigated in 137 Japanese populations and a significant difference was observed between haplotypes AA/33 and GG/55.