Autopsy Biosafety: Recommendations for Prevention of Meningococcal Disease [0.03%]
尸检生物安全：预防脑膜炎奈瑟菌病的建议
Erin G Brooks,Suzanne R Utley-Bobak
Erin G Brooks
Introduction: As invasive meningococcal disease progresses rapidly, often affects youth, and has a fairly high mortality rate, such cases are likely to fall under medical examiner/coroner (ME/C) jurisdiction. Morgue perso...
Jolene Bierly,Laura M Labay
Jolene Bierly
Bile is one matrix type that may be collected at autopsy and submitted to the toxicology laboratory for analysis. Because it is an excretion product of the liver, it can be used for screening purposes and to determine what drugs an individu...
Postmortem Serum Amylase and Lipase Analysis in the Diagnosis of Acute Pancreatitis [0.03%]
尸检中淀粉酶和脂肪酶对急性胰腺炎诊断价值的评估
Theodore T Brown,Joseph A Prahlow
Theodore T Brown
The diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, which can occur due to natural and nonnatural causes, is usually made at autopsy based on gross and microscopic examination. However, some pathologists choose to measure serum amylase and lipase levels i...
Christopher M Milroy
Christopher M Milroy
Fatty liver is a common finding in clinical practice and at autopsy. It is most commonly seen associated with alcohol abuse and in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). It may also be seen in many other conditions in both adults and ch...
Daniel C Butler,David N Lewin,Nicholas I Batalis
Daniel C Butler
The liver is subject to a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic insults that manifest with both specific and nonspecific patterns of necrosis. In the autopsy setting, these patterns are often encountered as incidental findings or even causes o...
Robert Stoppacher
Robert Stoppacher
Acute pancreatitis can present as sudden, expected death and, therefore, fall under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner/coroner (ME/C). Although its etiologies are varied, alcohol abuse, trauma, and drugs are important to consider in t...
Katherine Callahan,Laura D Knight
Katherine Callahan
The pancreas can be a critical indicator of inflicted injury in young children. Due to its retroperitoneal location and the amount of incursion of the abdomen required to cause injury, the pancreas is unlikely to be significantly injured in...
Alfredo E Walker
Alfredo E Walker
The spectrum of traumatic and natural disease that can affect the adult pancreas is multiple and varied. Some entities are more commonly encountered in routine forensic pathology practice and the forensic pathologist needs to be very famili...
Christopher B Rogers,Ronald Devera
Christopher B Rogers
The forensic pathologist is an integral part of the trauma surgery team. Trauma surgeons depend on autopsy descriptions for accurate measurement of the severity of trauma and determination of the chance of mortality. The outcome of liver in...
Letter from the Guest Editor [0.03%]
客座主编来信
James L Caruso
James L Caruso