Reviews the medical and legal advances in forensic science. This book explores 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.

This book provides 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.

Death From Environmental Conditions
Morphological Findings in Burned Bodies
Michael Bohnert
Trauma
Kicking and Trampling to Death: Pathological Features, Biomechanical Mechanisms, and Aspects of Victims and Perpetrators
Veronique Henn and Eberhard Lignitz
Neurotraumatology
Timing of Cortical Contusions in Human Brain Injury: Morphological Parameters for a Forensic Wound-Age Estimation
Roland Hausmann
Forensic Neuropathology
Central Nervous System Alterations in Drug Abuse
Andreas Buttner and Serge Weis
Sudden Death From Natural Causes
A Forensic Pathological Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death
Vittorio Fineschi and Cristoforo Pomara
Child Abuse, Neglect, and Infanticide
Medicolegal Problems With Neonaticide
Roger W. Byard
SIDS
Diagnostic and Medicolegal Problems With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Roger W. Byard and Henry F. Krous
Infectious Diseases
Fatal Respiratory Tract Infections With Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Histopathological Features, Aspects of Postmortem Diagnosis, and Medicolegal Implications
Michael Tsokos
Pathological Features of Waterhouse Friderichsen Syndrome in Infancy and Childhood
Jan P. Sperhake and Michael Tsokos
Death Scene Investigation
Accidental Autoerotic Death: A Review on the Lethal Paraphiliac Syndrome
Stephan Seidl
Lethal Hypothermia: Paradoxical Undressing and Hide-and-Die-Syndrome Can Produce Very Obscure Death Scenes
Markus A. Rothschild
Maternal Death in Pregnancy
Pathological Features of Maternal Death From HELLP Syndrome
Michael Tsokos
Iatrogenic Injury
Injuries Resulting From Resuscitation Procedures
Mario Darok
Toxicology
Postmortem Alcohol Interpretation: Medicolegal Considerations Affecting Living and Deceased Persons
Donna M. Hunsaker and John C. Hunsaker III
Forensic Differential Diagnosis
Iliopsoas Muscle Hemorrhage Presenting at Autopsy
Elisabeth E. Turk
Index