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ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2017

Anterior wrist and medial malleolus: the optimal sites for tissue selection in electric death through hand-to-foot circuit pathway.

Guangtao Xu, Ruibing Su, Junyao Lv, Xiaoping Lai, Xianxian Li, Jiayan Wu, Bo Hu, Long Xu, Ruilin Shen, Jiang Gu and 1 more

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Article in International journal of legal medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Guangtao XuNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5846-9280
Ruibing SuNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Junyao LvNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Xiaoping LaiDepartment of Forensic Science, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Xianxian LiNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Jiayan WuNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Bo HuDepartment of Pathology, Jiaxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.
Long XuNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Ruilin ShenDepartment of Pathology, Jiaxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.
Jiang GuNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Xiaojun YuNational Key Disciplines, Department of Forensic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. xjyu@stu.edu.cn.
Shantou University · CNFirst Hospital of Jiaxing · CNGuangdong Medical College · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Specific morphological changes may be absent in some cases of electrocution shocked by the voltage of 220 V or lower. In this study, we attempted to demonstrate that the anterior wrist and medial malleolus were the optimal sites with promising and significant changes in electric death through the hand-to-foot circuit pathway. We established an electric shock rat model and observed histopathologic changes in the anterior wrist and medial malleolus. The results showed that the current intensities in the left anterior wrist and right medial malleolus were remarkably higher than those in the other sites, and the nuclei long/short (L/S) axis ratios of the arterial endotheliocyte and the skeletal muscle cell in these two areas were significantly higher than those in other parts of the body. These findings suggested that the anterior wrist and/or medial malleolus soft tissues as the narrowest parts of the limbs could be used as promising and useful sites for the assessment of electrical shock death, especially in forensic pathologic evaluation.

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AnimalsAorta, AbdominalArteriesCarpus, AnimalElectric InjuriesEndothelial CellsForensic PathologyModels, AnimalMuscle, SkeletalRats, Sprague-DawleyTarsus, AnimalAnterior wristElectric deathMedial malleolusNuclear polarization

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PMID27752779
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