ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The historic development and validity of drug automatism are discussed. Original articles and other publications supporting the concept do not present authenticated cases to validate the concept; therefore, it remains unproved.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The blood levels of parent tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) drugs in 11 case of suicide are reviewed. Values ranged from 0.11 mg% to 2.4 mg% with a mean of 0.80 mg%, which is consistant with the recent literature. The data suggest that in autopsy cases where TCA tissue levels or TCA metabolite concentrations could not be, or were not determined, blood levels of parent TCA drugs exceeding 0.1 mg% may be regarded confidently as the cause of death when no other cause is present.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The life span of the human species is about 70 years. The evolutionary strategy used by the species to attain this unusually long life span was not to avoid all coronary plaque formation, but rather to live a long time with coronary plaques in place. Only a rare kind of coronary plaque is thrombogenic and, therefore, fatal in young people. In a forensic service, the author has repeatedly encountered cases of sudden death in men under age 40 wherein a tiny, pale nonocclusive thrombus over a focal plaque was determined to be the cause of death. The histology of these plaques was consistently different from the commonplace innocuous plaques in older subjects. The thrombogenic plaque was marked by the triad: 1) cell- rich, bulky fibrous cap and base accompanying athero- necrosis, 2) phagocytosis in the necrosis-base boundary, and 3) adventitial inflammation. Atheronecrotic bases were commonplace in most innocuous plaques as well as universal in thrombogenic ones. These matters have not been subjected to systematic objective confirmation, and are offered here as hypotheses.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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There is a great range of variability in human breast size and resiliancy that may have an effect upon the interpretation of bite marks. A proper understanding of the normal range of breast morphology and a system of classification is necessary for an understanding of distortion effects, as well as the precise communication of those effects to others. A classification is given for the morphology of the female human breast following a review of the literature.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The intent of this paper is to present some psychological threads which appear to be operative for the perpetrator of bite marks. In the catalogue of multiple motivations, there appears to be a current theme of power, control, potency, and the attempt to have a psychological symbolization of the perpetrator's omniscient capacity for absorbing life essences. In an examination of these highly complex needs, the modern perpetrator appears to act out consistently with cultural biases coupled with immediate psychological needs which have pressed for expression. Due to a pattern of psychologically expressed ritualism, the perpetrator will often inadvertently leave important psychological clues at the crime scene. The attack style, mode of death, characteristics of the victim, etc.—these components reveal the information on the type of psychological needs that the perpetrator is trying to satisfy. In the cases of bite marks associated with violent crime, it becomes crucial to an “investigator” what type of personality characteristics are welded together to form this kind of need complex. After reviewing cases reported in the literature and after conducting psychological interviews with perpetrators, three major groups of perpetrators seem to be apparent. The first group is motivated out of an anger track, the second group is motivated out of sadistic biting, and the third is out of the more traditional “cannibal complex” motif.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The distance between anterior chest surface and intrapericardial surfaces of the heart and great blood vessels was measured on 37 cases (seven with acute fatal hemopericardium) at autopsy and on 24 live persons by computerized tomography.At autopsy, the apex of the heart was always closest to the skin surface except in cases with acute fatal hemopericardium, where the heart was displaced backwards by 10–40 mm.At computerized tomography, chest-heart distances were approximately 16 mm shorter than at autopsy. Changing the position of the patient from supine to prone decreased the distances by about 10 mm. The data presented demonstrate that the topography of the heart and great vessels is changing with the position of the bodyin vivoand that chest-heart distance tend to increase postmortem; therefore, the depth of a stab wound in the anterior surface of the heart as measured at autopsy should be regarded as a maximal estimate of the length of the stabbing weapon actually having penetrated the tissues.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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We examined six cases (four homicides, two suicides) involving gunshot wounds with .25 ACP ammunition. The nature of these cases is described in this article.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The assessment of Aboriginal skeletal remains and their distinction from whites is an area of major importance to the Australian forensic pathologist. The Aborigines, the indigenous people of Australia, are a distinct racial group with many characteristic anthropological features. The assessment of race is best made from an examination of cranial traits, 20 which are of value. A characteristic pattern of attrition of the teeth provides a method for establishing a skeleton as pre-European contact Aboriginal or postcontact tribal Aboriginal. The limb proportions of Aborigines differ significantly from other races and provide a useful adjunct to other racial discriminants. Quantifiable sex discriminants in the Aboriginal pelvis and femur differ in their ranges of values from other races. The humerus and shoulder girdle are of no value in making a racial distinction and are of limited value in sexing Aboriginal skeletons. Some pathological changes seen in Aboriginal skeletons are of value in corroborating race. These pathological changes include evulsion of incisor teeth, healed “parry fractures” of the ulnae, tibial squatting facets, treponemal changes, and auditory exostoses. The place and manner of burial together with related artefacts, features, and ecofacts may also provide corroboration.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID

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The history of progress in any field of science is related directly to technical advances which have occurred during that period. The microscope contributed immensely to the advancement of forensic investigations in the late 19th century, with its use to study trace evidence including blood, semen, soil, paint, and biological material. The application of the discovery of x-radiation by Dr. Röentgen of Würzburg, Germany, in 1895 provided an important new tool for medical practitioners throughout the world. Its application was also realized as a potential weapon by medicolegal investigators. Discovery of the location of foreign objects, including bullets, thus became a clinical as well as a forensic technique in support of the investigation of living and deceased persons. The early application of x-ray methodology in England in 1896 by Prof. Arthur Schuster of Owens College, Manchester, in a case of a gunshot wound of a woman, is described as well as some aspects of the primitive technique which were used.

ISSN:0195-7910    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1984

数据来源: OVID