The Autopsy

Birmingham coroner backs calls for £1 million digital autopsy scanner

A petition calling for Birmingham's coroner to get a CT scanner to carry out digital autopsies will be debated by city councillors next week.<p>More …

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Thursday 10 May 2018<p>8.30am - 8.45am<p>Official ISFRI2018 Congress Opening<p>Plenary Session - Integration (Pathology)Parkside Rooms 4 & 5<i><br>Chair - Chris</i> …

Virtual autopsy: exploring a natural mummy from early Egypt

The Science of ‘Serial’ Part II: Autopsy

Society on msnbc<p>#GoodNewsRUHLES: Boy with cerebral palsy scores touchdown<p>00:40<p>Eric Boehlert: We've never seen a president go after press like …

Integrated computer-aided forensic case analysis, presentation, and documentation based on multimodal 3D data.

2018 Jun;287:12-24. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.03.031. Epub 2018 Mar 23.<p>1Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Clinical-Forensic Imaging, …

The benefits and pitfalls of post-mortem computed tomography in forensic external examination: A retrospective study of 145 cases. - PubMed

OBJECTIVE:<p>Nowadays, post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) has become an integral part of Forensic practice. The purpose of the study was to …

Can virtual autopsy with postmortem CT improve clinical diagnosis of cause of death? A retrospective observational cohort study in a Dutch tertiary referral centre

ObjectiveTo investigate whether virtual autopsy with postmortem CT (PMCT) improves clinical diagnosis of the immediate cause of …

SAGE Video - Forensic Science: The Role of an Anatomical Pathology Technician

00:07<p>[Forensic Science: The Role of an Anatomical PathologyTechnician]<p>00:11<p>CARLA VALENTINE: My name's Carla Valentine,and I'm a pathology museum …

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<b>AUTHOR(S):</b><p>Leslie E. Hamilton MD,Calgary Laboratory Services & Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary<p>Roles: Project …

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Experience in North American medical examiner systems shows that the vast majority of infants who die suddenly are ‘apparently normal’ prior to their …

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The dissection of the heart is often the most important element of the autopsy and is the most difficult of the organs to dissect. Appropriate …

INTRODUCTION

<b>AUTHOR(S):</b><p>Evan Matshes, MD FRCPC is Assistant Chief Medical Examiner for the Province of Alberta (Calgary, Canada).<p><b>Ethical approval:</b> As per Journal …

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<b>AUTHOR(S):</b><p>Owen L. Middleton MD is an Assistant Medical Examiner at the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.<p><b>Ethical approval:</b> As per Journal …

Histological age determination of venous thrombosis: a neglected forensic task in fatal pulmonary thrombo-embolism.

2009 Apr 15;186(1-3):22-8. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.01.006. Epub 2009 Feb 8.<p>1Department of Forensic Pathology, University of Foggia, Ospedale …

The autopsy and diagnosis of pulmonary thrombo-embolism.

2018 Jun;14(2):241-243. doi: 10.1007/s12024-018-9950-5. Epub 2018 Feb 5.<p>1Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, …

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Enter the morgue with #TheAlienist stars Matthew Shear and Douglas Smith to witness what a modern-day autopsy can reveal through a trained-eye.

BBC Radio 4 - The Making of Modern Medicine, Making Signs

Series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine, written and presented by medical historian Andrew Cunningham.<p>Systematic post mortems revolutionised the study of disease. It enabled physicians armed with new instruments such as the stethoscope to translate the signs they were reading on the …

Back to the Future - Part 1. The medico-legal autopsy from ancient civilization to the post-genomic era.

2017 Jul;131(4):1069-1083. doi: 10.1007/s00414-017-1584-8. Epub 2017 Apr 24.<p>1Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public …

The medical autopsy as quality assurance tool in clinical medicine: dreams and realities

1. Benivieni A (1507) De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis, Filippo Giunti, Florence<p>2. Bonet T (1679) Sepulchretum sive …

Brain put in wrong body among mortuary failures

<b>A person's brain being found in the wrong corpse by an undertaker was among incidents reported by mortuaries from 2014 to 2016, a BBC Freedom of Information request has found.</b><p>There were 278 serious incidents in total in the three-year timespan in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.<p>Accidental …

Jewish society calls for removal of London coroner over burial delay

Senior coroner Mary Hassell insists no death will be prioritised on religious grounds and claims staff have been ‘bullied’<p>A Jewish burial service has called for a senior London coroner to be removed after accusing her of causing “anguish and trauma” by bureaucratic delays in a dispute over …

Beneath the Skin

How CNN reported this story<p>Chicago mom Cynthia Lane called CNN in 2016 and asked reporter Rosa Flores to look into her son’s death. That one phone call led to a yearlong investigation and the making of “Beneath The Skin.”<p>Flores and a team of producers consulted with forensic pathologists in …

College response to the Chief Coroner’s Annual Report 2016-2017

The shortage of pathologists highlighted in the report, particularly in respect of coronial autopsies, is of great concern. We welcome the Chief …

An Atlas of Skeletal Trauma in Medico-Legal Contexts

Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Ancient Dry Human Mummies Without Rehydration

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The effects of postmortem CT scanning all cases entering a UK public mortuary: a 3-month pilot

Autopsy work is currently principally used in the UK to derive a cause of death and/or investigate the pathologies leading to death on the …

Osaka hospital steps up under new autopsy law to ease forensic medicine shortage

A hospital in Osaka began performing autopsies to investigate causes of death at police request in April for cases in which foul play is not strongly …

Accuracy of non-contrast PMCT for determining cause of death

1.<p>Baglivo M, Winklhofer S, Hatch GM, Ampanozi G, Thali MJ, Ruder TD. The rise of forensic and post-mortem radiology – analysis of the literature …