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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... clinical medicine or other areas of science into autopsy investigations. With these advances and the emerging role of crosssectional imaging, autopsy practice is developing a more multidisciplinary approach to the investigations ...
... clinical weakness of MRI—its sensitivity to cardiac or respiratory motion—is not a problem in postmortem (PM) use. However, MRI does have other key weaknesses that hold it back as a routine PM imaging tool: the cost is high, the ...
... clinical practice, CT is used as an adjunct to the investigation and management of the patient rather than a single diagnostic tool, and also PMCT is more difficult to interpret than clinical CT, as changes occur rapidly during and ...
... clinical practice the contrast is injected, and the circulation then takes it all around the body. Radiologists are used to directly injecting contrast media into specific arteries and veins using intraarterial or intravenous catheters ...
... clinical imaging practice. However, an agent does not have to attenuate X-rays (positive contrast agent) in this manner to be useful. Clinically agents such as air or fat that lower the attenuation and appear black on traditional CT ...
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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