Forensic Pathology 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 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

• 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.