Introduction: In cases of infant deaths that have the legal nature, there are problems in determining the causes of death. Post-mortem assessments in this age group require the more different approaches than adults for both autopsy techniques and examinations. Aim: By examining the infant death cases, it was aimed to draw attention to the points to be considered in the autopsy cases and the cau...

Death is a universal phenomenon; however, is there "life after death?" This topic has been investigated for centuries but still there are gray areas that have yet to be elucidated. Forensic microbiologists are developing new applications to investigate the dynamic and coordinated changes in microbial activity that occur when a human host dies. There is currently a paucity of explorations of the...

In the April number of the Gazette for the year 1897, can article appeared by Dr. H. F. Nuttall, headed "Has Adipocere been observed in India?" in which, after detailing the conditions under which it is observed in Europe, he epitomizes Dr. McKenzie's paper on adipocere and remarks: "It remains an open question what it was he observed and called saponification." He also throws out the suggestio...

BACKGROUND Until August 2004 there were 106 forensic cases examined with postmortem multislice computed tomography (MSCT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging before traditional autopsy within the Virtopsy project. Intrahepatic gas (IHG) was a frequent finding in postmortem MSCT examinations. The aim of this study was to investigate its cause and significance. METHODS There were 84 virtopsy ca...

background: blood alcohol concentration is a major factor in forensic analysis in criminal and civil litigation. along with ethanol, other volatile compounds such as n-propanol are produced as products of putrefaction. the aim of this study is the evaluation of ethanol and n-propanol in postmortem blood. methods: a case-control study was done on 300 blood samples obtained from cadavers that wer...