ReviewAcademic forensic pathology2016
Pitfalls and Artifacts in the Neck at Autopsy.
Review in Academic forensic pathology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Death by hanging: possibilities and limits of medico-legal evidence.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Review
- Challenges and Complications in the Management of Advanced Oropharyngeal Carcinoma: Role of Post-Mortem Diagnosis and Future Perspectives.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Suspension-associated dislocation of the jaw in hanging.International journal of legal medicine · 2023Review
- Assessment of Cervical Skeletal Trauma: The Synergistic Contribution of Forensic and Clinical Medicine to a Case of Corpse Concealment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Anthropological analysis of trauma in throat bone and cartilage: A review.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2020Review
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- Erratum issuedErrata.2017
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Abstract
The diagnosis of strangulation at autopsy is a persistent challenge for the forensic pathologist. The main difficulty is interpreting the observations made at the postmortem table and deciding whether the observations are a sufficient basis to render an expert opinion that death was caused by external compression of the neck. This may have considerable importance to the criminal justice system and may lead to a conviction for murder. There are five main pitfalls and artifacts encountered in the neck at postmortem examination. These five areas provide the majority of the interpretative difficulties experienced by the pathologist. These challenges include: 1) developmental anatomy of the hyoid bone; 2) triticeous cartilages; 3) Prinsloo-Gordon hemorrhage; 4) postmortem hypostatic hemorrhage; and 5) resuscitation-related neck injury. This review explores these five areas. Awareness of the pitfalls and artifacts in the neck is essential for a satisfactory and evidence-based approach to interpreting observations of the neck at autopsy.
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