Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Advances, Updates and Emerging TechnologiesGuy N. Rutty This book covers new and exciting topics which have emerged in the area of autopsy recently, including the three different post-mortem CT-angiography systems currently available to practitioners in this field; a highly topical chapter on the role of genetic abnormalities in the handling of drugs within the body and how this can affect the interpretation of toxicological results in relation to how the drug may have caused or contributed to death; an update on the current classification and considerations related to deaths due to hanging; a review of injuries and fatalities caused by animals including post-mortem scavenging; an authoritative review of poisons and toxins from water and the life that inhabits it; and recent advances in knowledge in the use of entomology as an investigative tool as well as knowledge related to colonisation of cadavers by insects, animals and birds.
Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Advances, Updates and Emerging Technologies is a multi-subject book, aimed at different grades of practitioners, from different practice areas, covering topics that are currently discussed and anticipated to be discussed in the field of autopsy practice over the next few years. |
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... University of Leicester Leicester Leicestershire UK ISBN 978-1-4471-5269-9 ISBN 978-1-4471-5270-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5270-5 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht Library of Congress Control Number: 2013946201 ...
... University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK Ian Robert Dadour, PhD Centre for Forensic Science, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia Silke Grabherr, MD, PhD Unit of Forensic Medicine, University Center of ...
... University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK e-mail: bmll@le.ac.uk N. Sakamoto, MD Department of Forensic Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan S. Shiotani, MD ...
... University of Leicester) This chapter is the story of how arterial and venous contrast studies have been developed and how PMCT has been developed to PMCTA. Contrast. Agents. Any substance that alters the attenuation of an X-ray beam can ...
... University of Leicester) While casting techniques are mostly only applicable on single organs, methods were developed to render visible the whole vascular system of a body, such as for investigating the vessels of human embryos and ...
Contents
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Death by Hanging | 22 |
Marine Toxins | 39 |
The Dismembered Body | 59 |
Medicolegal Autopsies and Pharmacogenetics | 89 |
Forensic Entomology A Synopsis Guide and Update | 105 |
Advances in the Use of Latent Finger Marks | 131 |
Index | 148 |
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