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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... tissue, then there is little to gain. For basic applications this is not a problem as radiographic contrast for soft tissues is based mainly on tissue density (or more precisely electron density) and is easily B. Morgan, MA, PhD, BM ...
... tissues, soft tissues from fat, and all structures from air. Therefore, standard radiography and fluoroscopy are sufficient to identify metallic foreign bodies and bone fractures, and indeed these were the mainstay of postmortem imaging ...
... tissues and subsequently the appearance of gas [9]. Even in clinical CT, pathology may only cause subtle changes in tissue appearance, and it is for this reason that routine body and brain clinical CT scanning is normally “enhanced ...
... tissues if a lot of contrast is used, such as in whole body techniques, which may affect histology. Also the rapid dispersion diminishes vascular contrast requiring rapid imaging after injection (Images courtesy of Morgan B & Rutty G ...
... tissue edema and artifacts in histological investigations when injected using their protocols, which rendered its application in medicolegal cases difficult. This was probably due to the rapid extravasation of these agents into the ...
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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