Forensic Pathology Reviews

Description

Over the last decade, the field of forensic science has expanded enormously, with the rapid emergence of new autopsy and laboratory techniques, and the identification of many new markers for specific pathological conditions. In Forensic Pathology Reviews, Volume 1, leading national and international forensic pathologists provide cutting-edge reviews of many of the key recent medical and legal advances in the field. These critical surveys concentrate on common pathological entities likely to be encountered in daily forensic routine, as well as on specific pathological conditions rarely seen in the autopsy room. Complementing rather than replacing the classic textbooks in forensic pathology, the authors explore new avenues for analyzing the pathology of burned bodies, traumatic brain injury, death by drug abuse, sudden cardiac death, sudden infant death and neonaticide, and fatalities resulting from kicking and trampling. Other areas of interest include accidental autoerotic deaths, hypothermia fatalities, injuries from resuscitation procedures, the interpretation of alcohol levels in different specimens, and the forensic differential diagnosis and interpretation of iliopsoas muscle hemorrhage in the light of autopsy. Where appropriate, the authors also discuss the proper procedures for giving expert testimony in a death investigation. A comprehensive review of the international literature that is otherwise difficult to assimilate is given for each chapter. Cutting-edge and concise, Forensic Pathology Reviews, Volume 1 offers forensic investigators a rich demonstration of how the latest medical and scientific advances are being applied to solve current problems of high interest to forensic pathologists today. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Morphological Findings in Burned Bodies....Pages 3-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Kicking and Trampling to Death....Pages 31-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Timing of Cortical Contusions in Human Brain Injury....Pages 53-75 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Central Nervous System Alterations in Drug Abuse....Pages 79-136 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 A Forensic Pathological Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death....Pages 139-168 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Medicolegal Problems With Neonaticide....Pages 171-185 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Diagnostic and Medicolegal Problems With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome....Pages 189-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Fatal Respiratory Tract Infections With Mycoplasma pneumoniae....Pages 201-218 Pathological Features of Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome in Infancy and Childhood....Pages 219-231 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Accidental Autoerotic Death....Pages 235-262 Lethal Hypothermia....Pages 263-272 Front Matter....Pages 273-273 Pathological Features of Maternal Death From HELLP Syndrome....Pages 275-290 Front Matter....Pages 291-291 Injuries Resulting From Resuscitation Procedures....Pages 293-303 Front Matter....Pages 305-305 Postmortem Alcohol Interpretation....Pages 307-338 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 Iliopsoas Muscle Hemorrhage Presenting at Autopsy....Pages 341-353 Back Matter....Pages 355-367