Showing papers in "Legal Medicine in 2008"

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to predict the stature of a person using hand length and breadth, and the results showed that the hand length was more helpful in estimating the stature than the hand breadth.

TL;DR: Post-mortem MSCT can answer the cardinal questions of the location of entrance and exit wounds, the detection of bullets and bullet fragments in the body, the bullet course, inflicted injuries and cause of death reliably and is therefore a useful tool in the assessment of such injuries.

TL;DR: The present study examines the suitability of the Greulich-Pyle method given the particular requirements of forensic age estimates using a retrospective analysis of 649 hand radiographs originally taken from persons aged between 1 and 18 years, separately for each sex.

TL;DR: This study confined to the Maharashtra region of western India is useful to determine the sex of the sternum when it is subjected for medicolegal skeletal examination.

TL;DR: The epidemiology, autopsy findings, pathophysiology, and clinical issues related to PTE and DVT in Japan based on autopsy cases at the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office are reviewed.

TL;DR: Telomere length measurement by real-time quantitative PCR cannot be used to predict age of a person, due to the presence of large inter-individual variations in telomere lengths.

TL;DR: Investigation of immunohistochemical distributions and mRNA expressions of myocardial hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 alpha and its downstream factors, erythropoietin (Epo) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), in cardiac deaths suggest that focal immunopositivities and increased mRNAs of these factors are indicative of short and substantial duration ofMyocardial ischemia, respectively.

TL;DR: Age of fusion of hyoid bone can help in determining the age of an individual, especially of unknown dead bodies where only skeletal remains are available, and a victim of compression of neck will more likely have fracture of hyoids bone if his hyoidBone is fused.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper determined 132 alleles with allelic frequencies ranging from 0.0042 to 0.5333 for 120 unrelated individuals of Chinese Yi ethnic minority group living in Yunnan province, China.

TL;DR: Positive data obtained by laboratory examinations and immunohistochemical analyses indicated that fatal systemic anaphylaxis occurred during intravenous injection of clinical agents.

TL;DR: The simultaneous deaths of two individuals by inhalation of hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S), produced either by the putrefaction of a large quantity of sweet corn or by heavy oil that flowed out of the fuel tank of aLarge stranded cargo vessel, suggests that the pathological and toxicological findings of H( 2)S poisoning vary from case to case.

TL;DR: The investigation of artificially contaminated historical bone samples which contained no original DNA shows that pure DNA can usually not be removed from the bones and that saliva is a similar thread for subsequent DNA analysis.

TL;DR: Allele frequencies for 15 STR loci included in AmpFlSTR Identifiler kit were ascertained in a sample population of 502 unrelated Kuwaiti individuals and showed that the Kuwaiti population was very similar to the neighboring Iraqi and Saudi populations.

TL;DR: Despite complete decapitation, the face was congestive, the lungs were congested with findings of acute respiratory distress, and the brain was markedly swollen with diffuse and severe astrocyte injury, suggesting that asphyxiation was involved in the death before decapitation.

TL;DR: In this article, the co-amplification of 17 Y-chromosomal STRs (including DYS19, DYS389I, Dys389II, DDYS390, DVYGATA H4, DYGTA H4) for Chinese Hui Ethnic Minority Group (Hui population) was performed.

TL;DR: In this article, it was concluded that deletion in the Yp11.2 region containing the loci of AMELY and of DYS458 on the Y chromosome, rather than mutation in the annealing region of the primer sets, had occurred.

TL;DR: The combinations of drugs in MDI are described and trends are discerned that may help elucidate manner of death in indeterminate cases of death from MDI.

TL;DR: Data indicated that VH maybe a useful specimen for the detection of PCP but not for cannabinoids, as indicated in this study.

TL;DR: An HPLC-UV method was established and applied to a case of death from falling after ingestion of a Tamiflu capsule containing 75mg of oseltamivir, finding that Linearity was obtained in the concentration from 0.1 to 3.0microg/ml.

TL;DR: The suspect was concluded to have died of fatal hyperthermia in a state of excited delirium and neither addictive drugs nor alcohol were detected from the blood or urine.

TL;DR: Allele frequencies of 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci were determined in unrelated individuals in the Ovambo population from Namibia and the AmpFlSTR Identifiler detection system is a valuable tool for individual identification in Ovambo community.

TL;DR: The lack of hyperkalemia as well as of an increase of the hemoglobin level indicate that there is no distinct intravascular red cell lysis due to influx of water into the vascular compartment, therefore the death by drowning in humans in most cases is the result of a hypoxic cerebral process.

TL;DR: The authors of this case report illustrate the main pathophysiological and diagnostic features of positional asphyxia and possible relevant co-causes of death, with an emphasis on the combined role of acute alcoholic intoxication and obesity in the hastened demise of a subject in the head-down position.

TL;DR: Allele frequencies for 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci were obtained from a sample of 110 unrelated individuals from the Malay population living in and around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the characteristics of the population was compared with other East Asian populations.

TL;DR: It is suggested that fatty liver increases susceptibility to adverse effects of haloperidol, possibly leading to life-threatening events and excessive dose of antipsychotic drugs may be more harmful in patients with fatty liver.

TL;DR: Cytology is a useful and reliable tool in the identification of malignancies, but when the distinction of primary from metastatic tumors is addressed morphological criteria alone are not sufficient for a definite diagnosis of MM and the use of cell blocks, immunohistochemistry (IHC) and molecular ancillary techniques are recommended.

TL;DR: It is considered that the amount and the persistence of the calcium oxalate deposition in the kidney may afford a best clue to the postmortem diagnosis of ethylene glycol poisoning even in the chronic stage.

TL;DR: This study supports the concept that postmortem genetic testing of RyR2 mutations should be considered in autopsy examinations of SUD cases and raises the possibility that some cases with RyR 2 mutations may display phenotypic changes in lymphoid and cardiovascular organs.

TL;DR: It is revealed that the onset of diseases during diving frequently causes fatal accidents, especially for older divers.

TL;DR: Allele frequencies for 15 STR autosomal loci (D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, VWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818 and FGA) were obtained from a sample of 200 unrelated individuals from Bolivia.