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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... difficult to interpret than clinical CT, as changes occur rapidly during and after death that can obscure existing pathology. These include edema occurring in many tissues and subsequently the appearance of gas [9]. Even in clinical CT ...
... difficult. This was probably due to the rapid extravasation of these agents into the extravascular extracellular space and their high osmolality. In order to overcome the extravasation into the surrounding tissue, and therefore the ...
... difficult to detect with PMCT. Therefore, a diagnosis of ischemic heart disease is made after review of clinical history, examination findings such as ECG, and the presence of pulmonary edema, an indirect PMCT finding suggesting Fig ...
... difficult to diagnose pulmonary thromboembolism with non-contrast PMCT. The whole body and targeted PMCT angiography (PMCTA) techniques described in this chapter are customarily difficult to do in Japan where surgical management on a ...
... difficult problem for all PMCTA techniques due to variable presence of postmortem clot (Images courtesy of Sakamoto N & Shiotani S, Tokyo, Japan) After confirmation of death, consent to perform non-contrast PMCT and PMCTA was obtained ...
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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