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International Journal of Legal Medicine

Ausgabe 6/2025

Inhalt (45 Artikel)

Development and validation of a multiplex assay system for simultaneous detection of HIV-1, HBV, and human STRs for forensic application on CE system

  • Original Article

Yi Liu, Zhaorui Chang, Dan Wen, Ruyi Xu, Yue Wang, Weifeng Qu, Chudong Wang, Hongtao Jia, Jienan Li, Jifeng Cai, Yadong Guo, Bowei Jiang, Lagabaiyila Zha

Assessment of a microhaplotype panel for human identification and ancestry inference in Brazil

  • Original Article

Luciellen Davila Giacomel Kobachuk, Vítor Matheus Soares Moraes, Thássia Mayra Telles Carratto, Letícia Marcorin, Aguinaldo Luiz Simões, Heather L. Norton, Esteban J. Parra, Erick C. Castelli, Celso Teixeira Mendes-Junior

Foren-STR: a comprehensive tool for rapid calculation of forensic parameters from autosomal STR data

  • Open Access
  • Short Communication

Jorge Castillo-Ortiz, Lizzette Salinas-Pineda, N. Sofía Huerta-Pacheco, Mariano Guardado-Estrada

Effect of the luminol test on blood mRNA detection: A pilot study

  • Short Communication

Seiji Kubo, Fumitaka Nakano, Jin Tanaka, Hideki Niimi

Fatalities in opioid agonist treatment with long-acting injectable buprenorphine

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Margareeta Häkkinen, Claudia Mariottini, Pirkko Kriikku, Ilkka Ojanperä

The first report from Ankara on the presence of xylazine abuse in blood and urine samples using a validated LC-HRMS method

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Yeter Erol Öztürk, Oya Yeter, Hızır Aslıyüksek, Ali Oztuna, Sermet Sezigen, Göksun Demirel

Poisoning suicide due to paroxetine overdose toxicity aided by benzodiazepine and antipsychotic drugs

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Dimitra Florou, Research Fellow, Kleio-Evangelia Fragkouli, Amvrosios Orfanidis, Vassiliki A. Boumba

Forensic analysis of deaths from train and subway surfing

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Alberto Amadasi, Larissa Amadasi, Luca Berti, Lars Oesterhelweg

Fatal and nonfatal sharp force injuries to the limbs: a study of forensic autopsies in Sweden (2010–2019)

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Anton F. Mittendorf, Nils Rosario Högberg, Tilde Joensuu, Yohan Robinson, Carl Johan Wingren, Ali-Reza Rezaie, Brita Zilg

Significance of chondrocyte viability in postmortem interval assessments and chondrocyte viability assay

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Anita Galić Mihić, Davor Mayer, Katerina Jazbec Gradišar, Elvira Maličev, Rok Blagus, Pero Hrabač, Armin Alibegović

Validation of computational models simulating injury-related kinematics with muscle activation – obtaining data under general anaesthesia

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Lea Siebler, Sarah Thaler, Julia Muehlbauer, Steffen Peldschus, Philipp Groene, Sylvia Schick, Simon T. Schaefer

A case of suspected transmission of group A Streptococcus from a dead body with streptococcal toxic shock syndrome to an autopsy worker

  • Case Report

Keisuke Okaba, Ayumi Motomura, Naoki Saito, Koji Yamaguchi, Namiko Ishii, Shizuru Hara, Misako Ohkusu, Noriko Takeuchi, Naruhiko Ishiwada, Daisuke Yajima

Necrotizing fasciitis in a plaster casted upper extremity: a forensic autopsy case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Ahed Alghaithi, Marie Epain, Anne-sohphie Advenier, Laurent Fanton

Textiloma: surgical and forensic implications of medical negligence. A case report and literature review

  • Case Report

Lina De Paola, Gabriele Napoletano, Bruno Cirillo, Giulia Duranti, Simona Zaami, Andrea Mingoli, Enrico Marinelli, Gioia Brachini

The diatom test for drowning: an unreported source of diatom contamination

  • Open Access
  • Short Communication

Philippe Lunetta, Johanna Virri, Jan Weckström

The current state of forensic imaging – perspectives

  • Open Access
  • Review

Fabrice Dedouit, Mathilde Ducloyer, Jamie Elifritz, Natalie L. Adolphi, Grace Wong Yi-Li, Summer Decker, Jonathan Ford, Yanko Kolev, Michael Thali

Forensic shotgun pellet examination – material detection with dual-energy computed tomography

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Mikael Brix, Juho-Antti Junno, Eveliina Lammentausta, Alina Junno, Timo Liimatainen, Jaakko Niinimäki, Juha Kiljunen, Petteri Oura

Inversion time optimization in postmortem 1.5 tesla FLAIR brain imaging: a pilot study

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Christine Bruguier, V. Magnin, J-F Knebel, S. Grabherr, V. Dunet, P. Genet

Forensic personal identification using two-dimensional computed tomographic imaging of the frontal sinus: a comparative analysis of feature matching algorithms

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Suguru Torimitsu, Yukiko Uemura, Shigeki Tsuneya, Numfon Tweeatsani, Maiko Yoshida, Daisuke Yajima, Go Inokuchi, Ayumi Motomura, Fumiko Chiba, Yumi Hoshioka, Hirotaro Iwase, Yohsuke Makino

A fully automated deep learning framework for age estimation in adults using periapical radiographs of canine teeth

  • Original Article

Witsarut Upalananda, Chayanit Phisutphithayakun, Pornsinee Assawasuksant, Praewchompoo Tanwattana, Pattramai Prasatkaew

Evaluation of Demirjian staging method reproducibility and reliability for dental age estimation between eight forensic experts

  • Original Article

Rizky Merdietio Boedi, Nikolaos Angelakopoulos, Ademir Franco, Nikita Polukhin, Akiko Kumagai, Ivan Galic, Jeta Kelmendi, Israel Soriano Vázquez, Sang-Seob Lee, Roberto Scendoni, Galina Zolotenkova, Stefano De Luca

Dental age estimation using the London atlas– which tooth and which tooth stage predict age best (excluding 3rd molars)?

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Wei-Xi Tan, Janet Ann Davies, Helen Mary Liversidge

Forensic age estimation using Dedouit classification in adolescents of the Southwestern Chinese Han population based on the knee MRI

  • Original Article

Xiao-Dong Deng, Qi Leng, Fei Fan, Yi-Si Huang, Wei Zhang, Li-Xia Zhang, Yun Liu, Zhen-Hua Deng

Reliability of London atlas for dental age estimation in an Australian cohort

  • Open Access
  • Short Communication

Amanda Chua, Christabel Halim, Ethan Pham, Selwin Samuel, Sobia Zafar, Sakher AlQahtani

Three-step forensic approach for the differentiation of human and pig fingernail-like fragments: macroscopic examination, raman spectroscopy and histogenetic analyses

  • Original Article

Marco Cummaudo, Silvia Bruni, Annalisa D’Apuzzo, Debora Mazzarelli, Giulia Caccia, Andrea Palamenghi, Dominic Salsarola, Lucie Biehler-Gomez, Cristina Cattaneo

Assessing the contribution of orthodontic profiles in predicting facial soft tissue thickness for forensic facial approximation

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Muhammad Garry Syahrizal Hanafi, Hajime Utsuno, Shuuji Namiki, Nanami Aoki, Hisako Saitoh, Saki Minegishi, Sayaka Yamada, Yohsuke Makino, Hirotaro Iwase, Koichi Sakurada

The tall order of stature estimation in burnt skeletal remains: a performance test in the Portuguese population

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

M. Beatriz Barreiro, João Fernandes, Miguel Morgado, David Gonçalves, Maria Teresa Ferreira

The impact of age-related changes in the skull on sex estimation using morphoscopic traits

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Sarah-Kelly Houston, Desiré Brits, Jolandie Myburgh, Leandi Liebenberg

Sex assessment from contemporary Mexican postcranial long bones

  • Original Article

Antinea Menéndez Garmendia, Gabriela Sánchez-Mejorada, Jorge Alfredo Gómez-Valdés

The structure of Legal Medicine in Germany – an overview

  • Review

Knut Albrecht, Andreas Schmeling

Postmortem Testing for HIV, HBV, and HCV: Insights from Autopsy Findings

  • Original Article

Abhishek Sharma, Kirti Parmar, Sunite A. Ganju, Manoj Sharma, Saurabh Rattan

Hypothermia drives fatty acid transporter 1 upregulation and lipid accumulation in renal tubules: evidence from forensic cases

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Kie Horioka, Hiroki Tanaka, Akira Hayakawa, Yoichiro Takahashi, Henrik Druid, Lasse Pakanen, Katja Porvari

Amino acids and their metabolites as potential biochemical markers in postmortem vitreous humour

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Laura Franke, Hannah Ihle, Kristina Rieger, Viviane Stammer, Senta Niederegger, Dirk K. Wissenbach, Frank T. Peters, Gita Mall

Scanning electron microscope analysis of elements in amalgam restorations to determine when a deceased person may have lived. A method based on data from Scandinavia

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Sandra E. Floberg, Dalia Shwan, Thuyen Michelle Tran, Sigrid I. Kvaal, Jon E. Dahl, Simen E. Kopperud

Postmortem data collection protocol for cardiac implantable electronic devices by the forensic pathologists: how to avoid conflicts of interest and minimize data loss?

  • Original Article

Sébastien Gaertner, Laurent Berthelon, Eric Quiring, Laurence Jesel-Morel, Jean-Sébastien Raul, Audrey Farrugia

Suicide in subjects under the age of 30: a retrospective analysis

  • Original Article

Alberto Blandino, Luca Pietro Ernesto Sbrissa, Emma Flutti, Nicola Galante, Andrea Cazzaniga, Carolina Passani, Guido Vittorio Travaini

Exploring the post-mortem interval through blood biochemistry: a preliminary case series study and review of the literature

  • Open Access
  • Original Article

Vincenzo M. Grassi, Gabriele Ciasca, Giuseppe Vetrugno, Andrea Urbani, Vincenzo L. Pascali, Fabio De-Giorgio

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Fabrizierte und/oder Induzierte Krankheit und medizinische Kindesmisshandlung

Fabrizierte und/oder Induzierte Krankheit (FII, ehemals Münchhausen-by-Proxy-Syndrom)/medizinische Kindesmisshandlung (MKM) ist eine Form der Kindesmisshandlung, bei der ein Kind oder Jugendliche*r unter 18 Jahren durch Handlungen einer …

Forensisch-medizinische körperliche Untersuchung von Mädchen und Jungen bei Verdacht auf Misshandlung und Missbrauch

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Leibzeichen in Norddeutschland – ein (fast) vergessener Rechtsbrauch

In nordeuropäischen Kirchen werden – meistens im Rahmen von Baumaßnahmen – immer wieder menschliche Überreste entdeckt; diese befinden sich oft in mumifiziertem Zustand, und ihr Ursprung ist weitgehend unbekannt. Zu der Herkunft dieser Relikte – …

Präneoplasien des hepatozellulären Karzinoms

Das hepatozelluläre Karzinom (HCC) entsteht meist auf dem Boden einer Leberzirrhose. Häufige Risikofaktoren sind virale Hepatitiden B/C, Alkoholabusus, „metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease“ (MASLD) und genetische Erkrankungen.