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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology

Ausgabe 2/2025

Inhalt (68 Artikel)

Detection of substance use in clinical forensic cases: urine analysis of victims and perpetrators

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Pia Johansson Heinsvig, Katinka Rønnow Holler, Christian Lindholst, Trine Skov Nielsen

Lung densitometry in postmortem computed tomography - comparison across different fatal asphyxia groups

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Søren Reinhold Jakobsen, Lars Schellerup, Lene Warner Thorup Boel, Kasper Hansen

The other side of the paper as the evidence: impacts of fingermark development reagents on fingermark development and cocaine amount in cocaine-impregnated paper

  • Original Article

Yakup Gulekci, Fatma Cavus Yonar, Pınar Efeoglu Ozseker, İsmail Ethem Gören, Nebile Daglioglu

Forensic dental age estimation with deep learning: a modified xception model for panoramic X-Ray images

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Ercument Yilmaz, Cansu Görürgöz, Hatice Cansu Kış, Emin Murat Canger, Bengi Öztaş

The polychromatism of postmortem cerebrospinal fluid

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

S. Trella, C. Reinert, H. Heinsen, U. Preiß, CM. Monoranu, J. Zwirner, B. Ondruschka, M. Bohnert, S. Bohnert

Postmortem biochemistry of GFAP, NSE and S100B in cerebrospinal fluid and in vitreous humor for estimation of postmortem interval: a pilot study

  • Original Article

Rossana Cecchi, Jessika Camatti, Maria Laura Schirripa, Monica Ragona, Silvana Pinelli, Nicola Cucurachi

Altitudinal variations in forensically relevant dipterans in Trentino Region (Italy): implications for PMI estimation and forensic ecology

  • Original Article

Simone Corotti, Francesca Dattrino, Fouzi Boulkenafet, Simonetta Lambiase

Tree failure – A natural phenomenon with forensic implications

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Roger W. Byard

Sex estimation with convolutional neural networks using the patella magnetic resonance image slices

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Nevin Cavlak, Gökalp Çınarer, Mustafa Fatih Erkoç, Kazım Kılıç

Autopsy characteristics of deaths due to pulmonary thromboembolism in northern and western denmark: a 10-year retrospective study

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Martin Roest Christensen, Annesofie Bjerrum Larsen, Lene Warner Thorup Boel

Cohort-based nomogram for forensic prediction of SCD: a single-center pilot study

  • Original Article

Zihan Liao, Gaohan Chen, Xingrui Cao, Longqiao Liu, Jiatong Li, Baoli Zhu, Zhipeng Cao

Distinguishing injury patterns in fatal falls from heights versus pedestrian impacts: an autopsy study for differential diagnosis in ambiguous cases

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Alessandro Mauro Tavone, Roberta Marinelli, Francesca Cazzato, Giorgia Piizzi, Federico Piselli, Giulia Ceccobelli, Gabriele Giuga, Raimondo Vella, Naomi Romaniello, Antonio Oliva, Gian Luca Marella

Enhancing postmortem diagnostics: over a decade of ISO 17020 accreditation and guidelines implementation in forensic pathology

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Wouter Van Den Bogaert, Joke Wuestenbergs, Bram Bekaert, Elisabeth Dequeker, Wim Van de Voorde

Insect succession patterns on pig carrion in southern Nigeria

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Izuchukwu Stanley Etoniru, Desiré Brits, Jolandie Myburgh, Maryna Steyn, Lawrence Hill

Development of conductive fingermarks for forensic applications

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Niamh E. Richards, Andrew Langley, Laura J. Vera Stimpson

The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the profile of suicide cases involving substances in a state Brazil: an analysis of a 6-year period

  • Original Article

Bruna Espíndola da Silva, Bruna de Souza Boff, Jair Silveira Filho, Samilla Driessen Schroeder, Kéttulin Zomer Rezin, Camila Marchioni

The forensic medical evaluation of medical malpractice claims in the field of medical pathology

  • Original Article

Mirac Ozdemir, Ferah Karayel, Humman Sen, Mehmet Akif Inanici

Defining, exploring the sources and expressing post-mortem diagnostic uncertainty

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Wouter Van Den Bogaert, Lotte Alders, Joke Wuestenbergs, Elisabeth Dequeker, Wim Van de Voorde

Contactless in vitro detection of carboxyhemoglobin using hyperspectral imaging (HSI)

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

P. Czarkowski, C. Babian, St Lüdtke, S. Baumann, J. Dreßler

Police arrest-related death: about four cases and review of the literature

  • Case Report

Mohamed Amine Zaara, Azza Belhaj, Mariem Gharbaoui, Mohamed Bellali, Mehdi Ben Khelil

A fatal poisoning due to consumption of crushed Abrus precatorius seeds: an autopsy case report

  • Case Report

Sathish Ayyappan, Ashok N, Aswini Nivedida Jayakumar, Sreerekha Jinkala

Case report: Electrocardiographic (ECG) recording during the hanging process

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

E. M. Ungermann, M. Balikowski, J. Hemker, K. Feld

Accident or abuse? Differential diagnosis of contact burns from radiators/heaters in children

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

A. Amadasi, C. Schönfeld, S. Etzold

Blue toe syndrome - systemic cholesterol crystal embolism secondary to cardiovascular procedures: a forensic autopsy report of two cases

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Atsushi Yamada, Kyoka Kiryu, Satoshi Takashino, Masaki Yoshida, Toshiaki Takeichi, Osamu Kitamura

Post-mortem diagnosis of septic arthritis by Pasteurella multocida: a case report and literature review of fatal septic arthritis

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Arianna Giorgetti, Simone Santelli, Ilenia Filipuzzi, Maria Paola Bonasoni, Giuseppe Basile, Filippo Pirani, Susi Pelotti

Intravital skin ulcer in a late 18th century Spanish child mummy: evidence for septicemic death?

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

A. G. Nerlich, R. D. Loynes, A. Jardiel Badia, A. Begerock, D. Delgado, M. Gonzalez, Raffaella Bianucci

A case of fatal chlorfenapyr poisoning: evidence from histopathology and autopsy

  • Case Report

Hinsan Chui, Qian Wei, Ying Wang, Jiahui Chen, Feijun Huang, Fenghua Zhang, Daoyin Gong

A fatal case of accidental asphyxia following nitrous oxide inhalation and alcohol consumption

  • Case Report

Huine Liu, Man Liang, Yi Yang, Jinghong Ma, Yiwu Zhou, Hongmei Dong, Yijie Duan

Post-mortem diagnosis of malaria in decomposed and embalmed body

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Magdalena Kusior, Danuta Piniewska-Róg, Marta Wojtas, Marek Sanak, Martyna Maciów-Głąb, Artur Moskała

Incidental detection of aluminum phosphide in abdominal subcutaneous fat- a rare reporting of chemical analysis findings in poisoning cases

  • Case Report

Arijit Datta, Dhara Goswami, Srushti Shukla, Darshan Galoria, Pradip Rana, Arpan Kumar Pan

Fatal acute uterine inversion post-vaginal delivery: an autopsy-based case report

  • Case Report

Arijit Datta, Darshan Galoria, Sweta Sinha, Arpan Kumar Pan

Two cases of fatal insulin homicide resolved using combined immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence techniques

  • Case Report

Yiling Li, Zhonghao Yu, Yuhao Yuan, Jiaxin Zhang, Shuquan Zhao, Yijie Duan, Yiwu Zhou

Exsanguination from an arteriovenous dialysis fistula: accident, suicide or medical malpractice?

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

S. Schof, J. Hertzberg, A. Jahnke, Christoph G. Birngruber

Neonatal fatal haemorrhage after a ritual circumcision: forensic and ethical considerations

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Pierluigi Passalacqua, Raimondo Vella, Giorgio M. Coppola, Nazaria Lanzillo, Francesca Servadei, Michele Treglia, Margherita Pallocci

Trabecular bone microstructure parameters as predictors for chronological age: a systematic review

  • Review

Arshiya Tabassum, Mansharan Kaur Chainchel Singh, Norliza Ibrahim, Vinita Sanjeevan, Mohd Yusmiaidil Putera Mohd Yusof

MALDI-MSI: A potential game changer in forensic sciences

  • Review

Asma Jamshaid, Saadia Noreen, Tanveer Khalid

Trends in forensic investigation of seminal fluid- a scoping review

  • Review

Megha Upadhyay, Pankaj Shrivastava, Kapil Verma, Bhawana Joshi

Positive identification through comparative dental analysis in mass disaster: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Review

Rizky Merdietio Boedi, Nikolaos Angelakopoulos, Emilio Nuzzolese, Hemlata Pandey, Scheila Mânica, Ademir Franco

The mastoid triangle (Ma-Ast-Po) as a sexually dimorphic feature – a systematic review of 1604 human skulls and meta-analysis

  • Review

Maria Eduarda Ramos Stefanel, Lígia Melissa de Souza, Fernanda Thomaz de Aquino Macedo, Débora Duarte Moreira, Rhonan Ferreira Silva, Nikolaos Angelakopoulos, Walbert Andrade Vieira, Luiz Renato Paranhos, Ademir Franco

A mini review on study of forensically important poisoning cases involving bromadiolone

  • Review

Harishchandra Jirimali, Saiprasad Santre, Shubhangi Deonikar, Bhausaheb More

Urgent public health concerns due to rising violence and inadequate cadaver management in ecuador

  • Commentary

Esteban Ortiz-Prado, Juan S. Izquierdo-Condoy, Jorge Vasconez-Gonzalez, Sebastian Barona

Cardiac tamponade – a rare cause of sudden death in autoimmune polyglandular syndrome

  • Open Access
  • Images in Forensics

Luzern Tan, John D. Gilbert, Roger W. Byard

Tarnished jewellery and skin – a subtle external marker indicating exposure to hydrogen sulfide

  • Open Access
  • Images in Forensics

John D. Gilbert, Roger W. Byard

Postmortem CT and autopsy findings in an elevator-related death: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Images in Forensics

Giovanni Aulino, Michele Rega, Vittoria Rossi, Massimo Zedda, Antonio Oliva

Fatal Rhodococcus erythropolis endocarditis complicated by an abscess invading the atrioventricular node: a case report

  • Images in Forensics

Yuhao Yuan, Longda Ma, Yue Liang, Shuquan Zhao, Qing Shi, Zhonghao Yu, Yiwu Zhou

Visualization of left common carotid artery injury by glass using postmortem virtual angioscopy

  • Images in Forensics

Haruki Fukuda, Rieko Kubo, Miyuki Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Tokue, Akira Hayakawa, Rie Sano, Yoshihiko Kominato

Opportunistic post mortem scavenging by the terrestrial flatworm Platydemus manokwari

  • Images in Forensics

Marianne Tiemensma, Roger W. Byard, Richard C. Willan, Leigh Winsor

Partially inverted and degloved penile skin mimicking the appearance of female genitalia in cases of deaths caused by trains

  • Open Access
  • Images in Forensics

Margaux Zarattin, Mohamed Yassine Braham, Jean-Loup Gassend

Branch in the heart: unusual fatal self-inflicted injury

  • Images in Forensics

Michał Kaliszan

Fatal exulceratio simplex (dieulafoy lesion) – a case report and review

  • Open Access
  • Images in Forensics

Luzern Tan, John D. Gilbert, Roger W. Byard

Fatal ingestion of firecracker in borderline personality disorder: suicide or not?

  • Images in Forensics

Tijana Petrović, Tatjana Atanasijević, Ana Opanković, Bojana Radnić, Vesna Popović, Milenko Bogdanović

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Taking imaging into the fourth dimension

  • Hauptreferate: Hauptprogramm der DGP

Modern hematopathology is in a constant state of evolution. New methods continuously allow unprecedented insights and interpretations of immune system processes. Both immunological reactions and malignant tumors of the immune system appear in a …

Automation of a pathology laboratory – current developments

  • Open Access
  • Hauptreferate: Hauptprogramm der DGP

Automation in histopathology is by no means a new topic. Indeed, a device for automated dehydration and paraffin impregnation was awarded a patent as early as 1909 [ 1 ]. However, subsequent efforts were limited to a few additional steps, such as …

Synoptic reporting

  • Hauptreferate: Hauptprogramm der DGP – Kurzbeiträge

Data quality (DQ) in surgical pathology is critical for both patient care and research. Particularly in times of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), data quality assurance is becoming increasingly important. Accordingly, synoptic reporting …

Koloniales Unrecht aufarbeiten – Provenienzforschung zur historischen „Schädelsammlung“ der Universität Leipzig (Deutschland)

  • Pathologie
  • Hauptreferate: Arbeitsgemeinschaften der DGP

Eine seit Jahren zunehmende Zahl von Museen und wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen übernehmen Verantwortung für ihre Vergangenheit, indem sie Provenienzforschung in ihren Sammlungen initiieren und sich mit den dabei aufgedeckten Unrechtskontexten …