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A 17-year-old white man who showed no obvious signs of trauma was found unresponsive in bed and was pronounced dead at the scene. The decedent had a documented history of heroin abuse and chronic back pain and reportedly self-medicated with Kratom (mitragynine). The autopsy was remarkable only for pulmonary congestion and edema and a distended bladder, both of which are consistent with, though not diagnostic of, opiate use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIs routine histopathologic examination beneficial in all medicolegal autopsies?
Am J Forensic Med Pathol
March 2007
Article Synopsis
- Postmortem examinations are categorized into medical autopsies, requested by next of kin to assess disease and treatment, and medicolegal autopsies, conducted by forensic pathologists to establish cause and manner of death and address legal concerns.
- A study was conducted on 189 routine forensic cases to evaluate the necessity of routine histologic (microscopic) examination, where the cause and manner of death were clear from gross examination.
- The findings showed that only one case had a changed cause of death due to histology, leading to the conclusion that routine microscopic examination is typically unnecessary in forensic autopsies, though it may be beneficial in specific situations.