Osteonal Damage Patterns from Ballistic and Blunt Force Trauma in Human Long Bones.

Forensic anthropologists play a key role in skeletal trauma analysis and commonly use macroscopic features to distinguish between trauma types. However, this approach can be challenging, particularly in cases of highly comminuted or incompletely recovered fractures. Histological analysis of microscopic fracture characteristics in fractured bones may thus help provide additional information on trauma type and bone fracture biomechanics in general.

Ballistic long bone fracture pattern: an experimental study.

When dealing with badly preserved cadavers or skeletal human remains, the assessment of death circumstances remains challenging. When forensic evidence cannot be taken from the skin and soft tissue, the information may only be deduced from more resistant elements such as bone. Compared to cranial gunshot injuries, reliable data on ballistic long bone trauma remains scarce.

Out-of-Hospital Tissue Donation: Multidisciplinary Donor Circuit in a Forensic Institute.

Objective: We aimed to implement an out-of-hospital system of generating donors that increases donation and answers the growing demand for tissue for therapeutic purposes.

Material: The Catalan Health Service issued the 4/2015 instruction promoting the integration of the donation network through collaboration with the Donor Center of Catalonia (DCC). The creation of DCC facilitated the signing of an agreement between The Blood and Tissue Bank, the Department of Justice of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Emergency Medical System, and the Hospital Clínic Barcelona for the procurement of tissues in the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia (IMLCFC), where the autopsies of all judicial deaths in the province of Barcelona are performed.