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South African and international legislature with relevance to the application of electronic documentation in medicolegal autopsies for practice and research purposes
BackgroundForensic and legal medicine requires all documentation to be recorded in a manner that is admissible in court. Issues surrounding privacy,...
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Stature estimation from handprint measurements: an application to the medicolegal investigation
BackgroundThe estimation of the stature of human beings is a major part of medicolegal investigation when only body parts are found. The study aimed...
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Bariatric Surgery and Malpractice: an Extensive Review of Demographics, Complications, Litigation, and Proactive Mitigation Strategies
The rising prevalence of severe obesity has led to a parallel increase in bariatric surgeries, raising a complex array of medicolegal issues. This...
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Post-mortem CT lung findings at a medicolegal institute in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR positive cases with autopsy correlation
CoVID-19 is a novel viral infection with now well-established clinical radiological findings. There is limited data on post-mortem imaging. We...
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Artificial intelligence in the practice of forensic medicine: a sco** review
Forensic medicine is a thriving application field for artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, AI applications intended to forensic pathologists or...
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Commentary on “Fatal cardiac air embolism after CT-guided percutaneous needle lung biopsy: medical complication or medical malpractice?”
To differentiate between medical malpractice and expected, but rare, medical complication in a medicolegal autopsy context is often difficult. Such...
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Consequences of the lack of clinical forensic medicine in emergency departments
Most victims of physical violence sooner or later will access a hospital or medical cabinet because of that violence, and in particular emergency...
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Forensic age assessments of alleged unaccompanied minors at the Medicolegal Institute of Montpellier: a 4-year retrospective study
BackgroundAs many other European countries, France has to deal with a growing number of migrants including some who contend age minority entitling...
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Corpse or not? Two peculiar cases of misidentification
Irrespective of whether they are intended for collectors or for the fetish market, dolls are being produced to look more and more realistic with such...
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Fatal cardiac air embolism after CT-guided percutaneous needle lung biopsy: medical complication or medical malpractice?
Computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous needle biopsy of the lung is a well-recognized and relatively safe diagnostic procedure for suspicious...
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Philemon and Baucis death: a literature review
Double death, i.e., two bodies at a scene, is relatively rare. The double death from natural causes of two close persons is called Philemon and...
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Non-accidental injury in children—a sub-Saharan perspective on a multidisciplinary, co-ordinated care approach
Non-accidental injury (NAI) in children presents a challenging problem to the pediatric neurosurgeon. The complexity of this condition is underscored...
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Sexual Assault of Women in the region of Kairouan, Tunisia: an 8-year retrospective study on epidemiological and medicolegal characteristics
BackgroundDespite the abundance of studies reporting the prevalence of women's sexual abuse all over the world, there is a real lack of such reports...
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Medicolegal Analysis of 81 Malpractice Claims Against Bariatric Surgeons in France
BackgroundMedicolegal expertise concerning bariatric surgery has greatly evolved, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but unfortunately, the...