Advances in Forensic Diagnostics

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 1829

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Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
Interests: personal identification; virology; geographic estimation; DNA typing; age estimation; stable isotope; computed tomography; machine learning; forensic anthropology
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Legal Medicine Section, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria, 1, 98125 Messina, Italy
Interests: forensic pathology; forensic immunohistochemistry; virtopsy; legal medicine; sudden cardiac death; criminology; violence and abuse; clinical risk management; medical liability
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Dear Colleagues,

Forensic medicine arose with the establishment of human society and continues to be a crucial aspect of the medical field today. After World War II, forensic medicine was enhanced significantly due to the introduction of blood typing. In recent years, diagnostic techniques have been further developed by the introduction of DNA typing and CT machines. This Special Issue aims to collect papers that will enable forensic diagnosis to progress in the following fields: pathology. odontology, radiology, anthropology, toxicology, body fluid analysis, DNA analysis, traffic science

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Forensic Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Ikegaya
Dr. Elvira Ventura Spagnolo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • abuse
  • alcohol
  • autopsy
  • ballistics
  • brain injury
  • cause of death
  • mode of death
  • drug-facilitated sexual assault
  • domestic violence
  • drugs
  • forensic toxicology
  • forensic anthropology
  • forensic clinical examination
  • forensic engineering
  • forensic entomology
  • forensic microbiology
  • forensic odontology
  • forensic pathology
  • genetics
  • histopathology
  • identification of the body
  • molecular biology
  • multidisciplinary approach
  • post mortem interval
  • post-mortem biochemical analysis
  • postmortem CT
  • postmortem immunohistochemistry
  • postmortem MRI
  • forensic laboratory
  • rape
  • reconstruction of trauma
  • sepsis
  • toxicology
  • virtopsy
  • forensic dentistry

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Study on the Mechanism of the Pink Tooth Phenomenon Using Bovine Teeth: A Pilot Study
by Nozomi Sumi, Saki Minegishi, Jun Ohta, Hajime Utsuno and Koichi Sakurada
Diagnostics 2023, 13(16), 2699; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13162699 - 17 Aug 2023
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The pink teeth phenomenon has occasionally been observed in forensic autopsies. This study aimed to establish an experimental pink tooth model and an objective color tone evaluation method in order to clarify changes in the color tone of teeth and the relationship with [...] Read more.
The pink teeth phenomenon has occasionally been observed in forensic autopsies. This study aimed to establish an experimental pink tooth model and an objective color tone evaluation method in order to clarify changes in the color tone of teeth and the relationship with hemoglobin monoxide and its decomposition products and with red pigment-producing bacteria, under various external environmental factors. It was confirmed that the color tone evaluation with ΔE and the L*C*h color space was useful. The results of various examinations using this model showed that color development was suppressed under aerobic conditions, faded early under light, became bright red under a low temperature and showed a tendency to be reddish at 3 days under high humidity and in the presence of soft tissue. The biochemical analysis revealed a significant increase in carboxyhemoglobin at 7 days and a tendency toward increasing the total heme pigment and bilirubin levels over time. The bacteriological analysis revealed that red pigment-producing bacteria increased over time but that the color faded after 7 days. These results suggest that putrefaction greatly affects the pink teeth phenomenon, whereas red pigment-producing bacteria have little effect on the occurrence of pink teeth. However, further studies are needed to clarify bacteriological involvement. Full article
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