Forensic Pathology Reviews

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tsokos, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Forensic Pathology Reviews, 5
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Forensic Medicine.

In this new volume of the globally recognized Forensic Pathology Reviews, Dr. Michael Tsokos has gathered chapters from the top experts in the field to reveal both the applied and scientific areas of expertise along the broad spectrum of forensics studies. Volume 5 piques the mind as leading forensi...

Table of Contents:

• Death from Environmental Conditions
• Death Due to Hypothermia Morphological Findings, their Pathogenesis and Diagnostic Value
• Trauma
• Fatal Falls from Height
• Understanding Craniofacial Blunt Force Injury: A Biomechanical Perspective
• Electrocution and the Autopsy
• Forensic Neuropathology
• Central Nervous System Alterations in Alcohol Abuse
• The Medicolegal Evaluation of Excited Delirium
• Death from Natural Causes
• Myocardial Bridging: Is it Really a Cause of Sudden Cardiac Death?
• Nontraumatic Intramuscular Hemorrhages Associated with Death Caused by Internal Diseases
• Ballistics
• Forensic Ballistics
• Identification
• Unique Characteristics at Autopsy that may be Useful in Identifying Human Remains
• The Forensic and Cultural Implications of Tattooing
• Serial Murder
• The Interaction, Roles, and Responsibilities of the FBI Profiler and the Forensic Pathologist in the Investigation of Serial Murder
• Forensic Histopathology
• Forensic Histopathology
• Forensic Age Estimation
• Forensic Age Estimation of Live Adolescents and Young Adults.