Facial soft tissue thickness trends for selected age groups of Sri Lankan adult population.

Facial soft tissue thickness (FSTT), together with the osteological characteristics of the skull, is one of the important factors for facial reconstruction in both forensic anthropology and plastic surgeries. Even though a number of countries around the world have analysed the FSTT data of their own populations and are having a FSTT database, no such dataset or analysis is available in Sri Lanka. In this study, FSTT was measured at 23 standard anthropological landmarks using magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of 243 adult individuals (male - 121, female - 122) of the Sri Lankan population, which were collected from clinical data from the National Hospital of Sri Lanka.

A Rare Long-term Complication of Physical Torture.

The allegations made against custodians regarding ill treatments have been increased in Sri Lanka. However, their attention is grabbed by the immediate complications of torture, but not by late or delayed complications. A 35-year-old male was arrested for alleged housebreaking and kept under police custody.

Sudden death of a middle-aged man with an artificial vagina .

Artificial vaginas are designed to imitate the female sex organ. This is the first reported case in the forensic literature of a man being pronounced dead with an artificial vagina . A middle-aged man was found unconscious in a bathroom when the door was forced open and was pronounced dead on admission.

Homicidal Cut Throat: The Forensic Perspective.

The forensic pathologists have a challenging task during the ascertainment of the manner of death in cut throat injuries when presented with no proper history or witnesses. We report a rare homicide, where a person was killed by the father of his gay partner. A 51-year-old married man was found dead in his car on the driving seat at a road.

Comparison of injuries due to lethal weapons during and after civil strife in Sri Lanka: A medico-legal study.

Background And Aims: "Injuries due to lethal weapons" has emerged as a subject of public discussion in Sri Lanka. This study was conducted to describe the nature and characteristics of injuries due to lethal weapons during civil strife and to compare those with injuries after civil strife.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on patients reported with injuries caused by lethal weapons from 2004 to 2014.

Management of dead and missing: aftermath tsunami in Galle.

Tsunami on 26th December 2004 which affected the entire costal belt of Sri Lanka caused over 30,000 deaths and about 8000 disappearances. The Forensic Unit of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital alone handled over 1100 deaths, of which about 450 unidentified bodies were dispatched for mass burial, after recording external appearances and all other important personal data, which helped us to establish identity of another 120 victims within next 6 weeks. The visiting forensic team from Colombo, arrived on 27th, assisted us in recording details of 1500 victims of "Peraliya" railway incident.