Forensic Pathology Reviews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Death From Environmental Conditions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Morphological Findings in Burned Bodies

      • Michael Bohnert

      Pages 3-27

3. Trauma

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Kicking and Trampling to Death

      • Véronique Henn, Eberhard Lignitz

      Pages 31-50

4. Neurotraumatology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Timing of Cortical Contusions in Human Brain Injury

      • Roland Hausmann

      Pages 53-75

5. Forensic Neuropathology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Central Nervous System Alterations in Drug Abuse

      • Andreas Büttner, Serge Weis

      Pages 79-136

6. Sudden Death From Natural Causes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. A Forensic Pathological Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death

      • Vittorio Fineschi, Cristoforo Pomara

      Pages 139-168

7. Child Abuse, Neglect, and Infanticide

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Medicolegal Problems With Neonaticide

      • Roger W. Byard

      Pages 171-185

8. SIDS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Diagnostic and Medicolegal Problems With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

      • Roger W. Byard, Henry F. Krous

      Pages 189-198

9. Infectious Diseases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Fatal Respiratory Tract Infections With Mycoplasma pneumoniae

      • Michael Tsokos

      Pages 201-218

   3. Pathological Features of Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome in Infancy and Childhood

      • Jan P. Sperhake, Michael Tsokos

      Pages 219-231

10. Death Scene Investigation

    1. Front Matter

       Pages 233-233

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    2. Accidental Autoerotic Death

       • Stephan Seidl

       Pages 235-262

A collection of cutting-edge reviews of many of the key recent medical and legal advances in forensic science. These critical surveys concentrate on common pathological entities likely to be encountered in daily forensic routine, as well as on specific pathological conditions rarely seen in the autopsy room. Complementing rather than replacing the classic textbooks in forensic pathology, the authors explore new avenues for analyzing the pathology of burned bodies, traumatic brain injury, death by drug abuse, sudden cardiac death, sudden infant death and neonaticide, and fatalities resulting from kicking and trampling. Other areas of interest include accidental autoerotic deaths, hypothermia fatalities, injuries from resuscitation procedures, the interpretation of alcohol levels in different specimens, and the potential forensic differential diagnoses and interpretation of iliopsoas muscle hemorrhage in the light of autopsy.

• Autopsy
• differential diagnosis
• forensic pathology
• neuropathology
• toxicology
• trauma

"...the readers of this book will establish up-to-date and good grasp of forensic pathology...the book can be recommended to forensic pathologists from beginners to experts. The book will give good basis for further forensic practices and researches." -Legal Medicine

"It is hoped that the following volume of this series will maintain the high standard set up by this first volume." -International Journal of Legal Medicine

"I would recommend the first book in this series to the practicing forensic pathologist who wishes to fill in some gaps of the standard forensic pathology texts or as a starting point to begin to master the art of traumatic forensic neuroimmunohistochemistry." -Arch Pathol Lab Med

"Cutting edge and concise, the book offers forensic investigators a demonstration of the latest advances in forensic pathology." - Clinical Laboratory International

"...a wonderful book on forensic pathology and a must-have for forensic pathologists...a nice addition to every forensic pathologist's library. " - Doody's Health Science Book Review Journal

"...a most welcome book and is essential reading, not only for forensic pathologists, but for all pathologists who carry out coroner's work." - ACP News

• Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Michael Tsokos

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