... retrospective study to better aid forensic pathologists, death investigators, law enforcement, and epidemiologists. 26 03 2005 13 06 2005 14 09 2005 forensic science forensic pathology death adolescents autopsy cause of death manner of death toxicology References WISQARS...

... literature regarding the identification of the body, there has not been much scientific debate about the alleged cause of death—cyanide poisoning, gunshot injury, or both. The available literature concerning Hitler's cause of death is incomplete because the toxicological analysis has not been performed...

... of a struggle to exit the container, and other factors. In all such cases, a careful death investigation with correlation of autopsy findings is required to accurately determine the mechanism and cause of death. We suggest that for all such deaths, physiological and environmental factors promoting hyperthermia...

... to the diagnosis of an alcoholic ketoacidosis (AKA) as cause of death in these cases. The control group of 69 postmortem cases revealed that BHBA concentrations below 500 can be regarded as normal, and values up to 2500 µmol/L as elevated. Our study shows that BHBA values over 2500 µmol/L could lead to death...

.... In two cases of accidental poisoning, the levels of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs were considered too low to be the sole cause of death and AAS was considered part of the lethal polypharmacia. Chronic cardiac changes were observed in 12 cases. In two cases of accidental poisonous deaths...

...B Hunter, M.D.; D French; J Warner; D Remick, M.D. Obesity can play a significant role in chronic diseases, sudden unexpected death, and morbid obesity may be important as a cause of death for forensic pathologists. Our study attempted to determine if there is a correlation between panniculus...

... , Sandouk   P , Latour   C , et al . Increasing plasma levels of cocaine following its chronic administration in the rat . FASEB J 1995 ; 9 ( 3 ): A369 . Karch   S , Stephens   B . When is cocaine the cause of death?   Am J Forensic Med & Pathol 1991 ; 12 ( 1 ): 1 - 2...

.... , and Durigon , M. , “ Postmortem Interval Estimation by Biochemical Determination in Birds Muscle ,” Forensic Science International   0379-0738 , Vol. 37 , No. 3 , 05 1988 , pp. 189 - 192 . pathology and biology neopterin cause of death postmortem neopterin levels time after death...

...EC Klatt, M.D.; NZ Mills, M.D.; TT Noguchi, M.D. The authors reviewed at autopsy the causes of death of 274 patients with evidence of intravenous drug abuse who had been admitted to a large public hospital. There were 127 who died from diseases unrelated to intravenous drug abuse, and in 41...