Forensic Pathology Reviews / Edition 1

by Michael Tsokos

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617375507
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Series:	Forensic Pathology Reviews , #1
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	367
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Death from Environmental Conditions.- I Morphological Findings in Burned Bodies.- Trauma.- 2 Kicking and Trampling to Death: Pathological Features, Biomechanical Mechanisms, and Aspects of Victims and Perpetrators.- Neurotraumatology.- 3 Timing of Cortical Contusions in Human Brain Injury: Morphological Parameters for a Forensic Wound-Age Estimation.- Forensic Neuropathology.- 4 Central Nervous System Alterations in Drug Abuse.- Sudden Death from Natural Causes.- 5 A Forensic Pathological Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death.- Child Abuse, Neglect, and Infanticide.- 6 Medicolegal Problems With Neonaticide.- Sids.- 7 Diagnostic and Medicolegal Problems With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.- Infectious Diseases.- 8 Fatal Respiratory Tract Infections With Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Histopathological Features, Aspects of Postmortem Diagnosis, and Medicolegal Implications.- 9 Pathological Features of Waterhouse—Friderichsen Syndrome in Infancy and Childhood.- Death Scene Investigation.- 10 Accidental Autoerotic Death: A Review on the Lethal Paraphiliac Syndrome.- 11 Lethal Hypothermia: Paradoxical Undressing and Hide-and-Die-Syndrome Can Produce Very Obscure Death Scenes.- Maternal Death in Pregnancy.- 12 Pathological Features of Maternal Death From HELLP Syndrome.- Iatrogenic Injury.- 13 Injuries Resulting From Resuscitation Procedures.- Toxicology.- 14 Postmortem Alcohol Interpretation: Medicolegal Considerations Affecting Living and Deceased Persons.- Forensic Differential Diagnosis.- 15 Iliopsoas Muscle Hemorrhage Presenting at Autopsy.

Editorial Reviews

"...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 neuroimmunohishemistry." -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

From the Publisher

4 Stars! from Doody

Reviewer: Ken C. Spengel, D.O.(University of Kansas Medical Center)
Description: The first volume of Forensic Pathology Reviews is a comprehensive international review of topics regularly encountered in forensic pathology.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a comprehensive review of central issues in forensic pathology. Up-to-date knowledge regarding autopsy, immunohistochemistry, bacteriology, DNA techniques, and toxicology is reviewed for common topics that are likely to be encountered in the daily practice of forensic pathologists.
Audience: The book is written primarily for practicing forensic pathologists. However, anyone involved medicolegal work, including investigative agents, could benefit from aspects of this book.
Features: This book is divided into 13 sections and 15 total chapters. Topics covered include burns, trauma (including trampling injuries and traumatic brain injury), CNS changes in drug abuse, sudden cardiac death, neonaticide, SIDS, infectious disease deaths, odd deaths scenes, HELLP syndrome, resuscitative artifacts, alcohol levels, and iliopsoas hemorrhages. Each chapter starts with a summary followed by well-organized subsections with numerous black-and-white images and tables. The credible authors are from institutes and universities all over the world including, 10 from Germany, four from the U.S., two from Italy, one from Austria, and one from Australia.
Assessment: This is a wonderful book on forensic pathology and a must-have for forensic pathologists. The book's strength lies in its up-to-date reviews of important forensic concepts. Although no new information is presented, reviewed data is presented in a thorough yet concise format, including some wonderful tables, e.g., the causes of mechanisms of sudden cardiac death table. There seems to be more emphasis on histopathology than in other forensic textbooks. Dr. Tsokos has succeeded in collecting a well-written, comprehensive set of reviews of common forensic pathology issues, a nice addition to every forensic pathologist's library.

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