Posts com a tag autopsy

Case study

REPORT ON CASES OF DEATH PRESUMED TO BE CAUSED BY DEFECTIVE AIRBAGS, FOLLOWING AUTOPSIES CONDUCTED BY THE TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC POLICE OF RIO DE JANEIRO

Claude Chambriard, Celso Eduardo Jandre Boechat, Larissa Admiral das Chagas


Neste artigo, são apresentados sete casos de mortes necropsiadas em postos da Polícia Científica do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como causa a ação, em tese, defeituosa de airbags. Seis dos casos avaliados apresentam um padrão único de lesões penetrantes causadas por, em tese, mau funcionamento de airbag, resultando na implantação de um fragmento metálico de componente do inflador.

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Case study

AN ATYPICAL HOMICIDE CAUSED BY CUT-THROATS IN BRAZIL

Murilo Sergio Valente-Aguiar, Nathália dos Santos Vieira Loubet, Conrado Falcon Pessoa


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Case study

AUTOEROTIC ASPHYXIA – WHEN SHAME TAKES THE SCENE

Carlos Durão


This paper reports a case of autoerotic asphyxia and discusses the importance of this legal medical diagnosis

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Original Article

AVOIDABLE DEATHS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC DISAGREEMENTS AND AFTER AUTOPSIES

Yuri.Franco Trunckle, Carmen Silvia Molleis Galego Miziara, Daniel Romero Munoz, Ivan Dieb Miziara, Ingryd Maturo Andreazzi


Avoidable deaths are those totally or partially preventable by the health service. This study aims to correlate the clinical and pathological diagnoses obtained through the analysis of studies already carried out in the literature, in order to determine the frequency with which the necropsy reveals unexpected diagnoses.

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Literature review

VIRTOPSY: TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN LEGAL MEDICINE, FORENSIC MEDICINE AND MEDICAL EXPERTISE

Nilton Tellian


In recent decades there has been an important advance in forensic medicine as the emergence of virtopsy, a technique in forensic radiology which uses radiological images in three dimensions. The objective of this study is to conduct a literature review on virtopsy and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of CT and MRI usage.

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