ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2015
Lung aeration on post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging is a useful marker of live birth versus stillbirth.
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- From Fragile Lives to Forensic Truth: Multimodal Forensic Approaches to Pediatric Homicide and Suspect Death.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The current state of forensic imaging - post mortem imaging.International journal of legal medicine · 2025Review
- How to report perinatal and paediatric postmortem CT.Insights into imaging · 2024Review
- The Role and Place of Thanatoradiological Studies in the Pathological Examination of Fetuses and Newborns.Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine · 2022Article
- Pictorial review of the postmortem computed tomography in neonaticide cases.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Review
- Assessment of neonaticide in the setting of concealed and denied pregnancies.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2020Article
- Lung density measurement in postmortem computed tomography: a new tool to assess immediate neonatal breath in suspected neonaticides.International journal of legal medicine · 2020Article
- "Was the Infant Born Alive?" A Review of Postmortem Techniques Used to Determine Live Birth In Cases of Suspected Neonaticide.Academic forensic pathology · 2018Review
- Forensic Aspects of Perinatal Deaths.Academic forensic pathology · 2018Review
- Postmortem fetal magnetic resonance imaging: where do we stand?Insights into imaging · 2018Review
- Current issues in postmortem imaging of perinatal and forensic childhood deaths.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveAim of this study was to investigate whether lung assessment on post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging (PMMR) can reliably differentiate between live birth and stillbirth. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe retrospectively assessed PMMR imaging features of a group of late foetal terminations following fetocide and stillbirths (without witnessed breathing) and early infant deaths (breathed spontaneously before death). PMMR images were reviewed for evidence of lung aeration and other features, blinded to the clinical and autopsy data.
resultsNineteen infant deaths (mean age 3.0 ± 6.5 post-natal weeks) and 23 foetal terminations or stillbirths (mean age 32.6 ± 10.2-week gestation) were compared. Subjective appearances of lung aeration on PMMR were the best indicator of live birth, with a sensitivity of 89.5% (95% confidence interval 68.6, 97.1%) and specificity of 95.6% (79.0, 99.2%) and positive and negative predictive values of 94.4% and 91.7%, respectively.
conclusionsLung aeration on PMMR appears to have high overall accuracy for confirmation of live birth versus intrauterine foetal death but now requires validating in a larger cohort of perinatal deaths.
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