[The use of lot numbers of surgically implanted devices for forensic identification].

The present study aims to discuss two successful identification cases of the search warrants on unknown bodies by the Baranya County Police Department. In both cases, identification was only possible by using lot numbers of the traumatological metal implants removed during exhumation, several years after the bodies had been discovered and the post-mortem investigation was completed. We hope that the cases provided will highlight the importance of secondary identifiers, specifically the lot numbers of medical implants, in forensic identification practice.

Forensic assessment of a life-threatening penetrating abdominal air gun injury.

Air guns are considered mostly harmless by the public opinion, but projectiles shot from common air guns can penetrate skin and thus able to cause severe, even life-threatening injury. The prevalence of air gun injuries is constantly high, but severe injuries occur rarely. Forensic evaluation of air gun injuries can be challenging since the shot wound characteristics produced by combustion in case of firearm injuries are missing.

Positioning of the wrist for scaphoid radiography.

Purpose: The purpose of this cadaver study was to determine the ideal position of the wrist for scaphoid radiography.

Materials And Methods: Four cadaver wrists were rotated around their longitudinal axis in 15 degrees increments and exposures were taken. Seven postero-anterior images were taken as well.

Analysis of the population heterogeneity in Hungary using fifteen forensically informative STR markers.

Previous studies have shown that population analyses in Hungary can be of great importance from the viewpoint of the examination of population differentiation. This study provides additional population genetic data of the Hungarian population on the thirteen CODIS core STR loci and on two penta STRs (PentaE, PentaD). Allele frequency and profile databases were generated for four population samples.