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Death following cylindrical battery ingestion associated with toxic manganese levels
Cases of battery ingestion are well documented in the scientific literature, especially concerning button cell battery ingestion in children. In this instance, the authors present an atypical case of a young m...
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Blunt Trauma
As illustrated in this chapter, clinical and post-mortem forensic radiology has a major application in determining blunt trauma. Blunt-force injuries are produced when the body is struck with or strikes a blun...
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Contribution of the use of clavicle bone density in age estimation
Age estimation is an essential element in the field of forensics and is also of judicial interest in forensic medicine of the living. Despite all the methods, age estimation is often imprecise with many biases...
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Age estimation based on computed tomography exploration: a combined method
Despite an extensive number of existing methods, age estimation of human remains is still an unsolved matter in the field of forensic anthropology, especially when it comes to mature adults. The specific aim o...
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Pictorial review of the postmortem computed tomography in neonaticide cases
Neonaticide is defined by the deliberate killing or homicide of a child within 24 h of its birth. In this context, three fundamental questions are generally asked of the forensic pathologist: what is the cause...
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Correction to: Postmortem coronary artery calcium score in cases of myocardial infarction
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-021-02608-w
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Open AccessPostmortem coronary artery calcium score in cases of myocardial infarction
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) related to atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (ACAD) resulting in myocardial infarction is the most prevalent cause of death in western countries. In clinical practice, coronary...
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Study of a seventeenth-century French artificial mummy: autopsical, native, and contrast-injected CT investigations
A lead coffin was fortuitously discovered in a church called “Eglise des Toussaints” in Rennes (French Brittany). A collaborative taskforce investigated this extraordinary discovery. A multi-disciplinary team ...
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Sudden aortic death—proposal for a comprehensive diagnostic approach in forensic and in clinical pathology practice
Aortic rupture or dissection as immediate cause of sudden death is encountered in forensic and clinical autopsy practice. Despite a common denominator of ‘sudden aortic death’ (SAD), we expect that in both set...
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Bone age estimation based on multislice computed tomography study of the scapula
Progress in medical imaging has opened new areas of research in forensic anthropology, especially in the context of the study of bone age assessment. The study of bone age has become a useful tool for age esti...
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Radiodiagnostic and Molecular Innovation in Personal Identification
The forensic radiological examination permits identity to be attributed to individual bodies in the context of molecular or odontological data that is unavailable or not readily accessible. Among the proposed ...
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Post-Mortem Forensic Imaging
For autopsies, in addition to classical non-enhanced post-mortem computed tomographies, (PMCT), an innovative technique consists in post-mortem vascular opacification. It is called post-mortem computed tomogra...
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Contribution of magnetic resonance imaging of the wrist and hand to forensic age assessment
Forensic age estimation of living individuals is a controversial subject because of the imprecision of the available methods which leads to errors. Moreover, young persons are exposed to radiation, without dia...
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Performance of post-mortem CT compared to autopsy in children
Radiological techniques such as non-enhanced post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) play an increasingly important role in death investigations, especially in cases of non-medicolegal context of death, where t...
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Is the persistence of an epiphyseal scar of the knee a reliable marker of biological age?
Age estimation of living individuals is a regular activity in medico-legal practice. Among the available tools for determining skeletal age, some authors have stated that the disappearance of epiphyseal scars ...
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Contribution of distal femur MRI to the determination of the 18-year limit in forensic age estimation
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Evaluation of an automatic method for forensic age estimation by magnetic resonance imaging of the distal tibial epiphysis—a preliminary study focusing on the 18-year threshold
The contribution of magnetic resonance imaging to forensic age estimation of living individuals is a subject of ongoing research. Several studies have focused on the wrist, clavicle, knee, and foot, and shown ...
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Fetal age estimation using MSCT scans of the mandible
The purpose of this study was to examine a documented fetal collection, to carry out morphometric analysis of femoral length and of the mandible, and to develop diagnostic standards for estimating fetal age at...
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Fetal age estimation using MSCT scans of deciduous tooth germs
Evaluation of fetal age is an essential element in many fields such as anthropology, odontology, paleopathology, and forensic sciences. This study examines the correlation between fetal age, femoral diaphyseal...
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Age estimation by magnetic resonance imaging of the distal tibial epiphysis and the calcaneum
Age estimation of living individuals is of critical importance in forensic practice, especially because of the increased migration in developed countries. Recently, the contribution of magnetic resonance imagi...
