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The images of 66 gunshot entrance wounds with a defect on the back, a bullet in the body, hemorrhage along the wound track, and logical certainty that it was an entrance wound were collected from the files of a moderately busy medical examiner's office. Participants numbering 22 board-certified forensic pathologists viewed a single digital archival image of each of the 66 entrance wounds randomly mixed with 74 presumptive exit wounds to determine whether they were entrance or exit wounds. The concordance rate for correctly identifying the 66 logically known entrance wounds was 82.

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Subdural hematoma occurrence: comparison between ethanol and cocaine use at death.

Am J Forensic Med Pathol

September 2013

Fulton County Medical Examiner's Center and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30312, USA.

Objective: The objective of this study was to show that, in a medical examiner population, ethanol intoxication is associated with an increase in the occurrence of subdural hematoma (SDH), whereas the presence of cocaine is not associated with an increase in the occurrence of SDH.

Design: This was a retrospective evaluation of 967 SDH including the investigative information, autopsy, and toxicological findings derived from 18,314 medical examiner cases over 8 years.

Results: Subdural hematoma is found in 7% to 9% of cases with either no ethanol or less than 100 mg/dL of ethanol.

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Vitreous beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) was retrospectively analyzed in 1795 forensic cases using the Pointe Scientific method. Comparison of vitreous BHB with vitreous glucose in 1781 of the cases showed moderately good correlation r = 0.731.

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Background: Medical examiners and coroners occasionally encounter unidentified human bodies, which remain unidentified for extended periods. In such cases, when traditional methods of identification have failed or cannot be used, DNA profiling may be used. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a National Missing Person DNA database (NMPDD) laboratory to which samples may be submitted on such cases and from possible relatives or environments of unidentified decedents.

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Context: Childhood deaths are carefully scrutinized by many different government agencies, fatality review panels, researchers, and other groups. Many such deaths, especially those that involve external causes such as injury and poisoning, are amenable to prevention. Characterizing the causes and circumstances of nonnatural childhood deaths may provide information that is useful for development of prevention strategies and programs.

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Background: Each year there are about 30 to 40 physicians who train and become board-certified in the specialty area of forensic pathology, compared with hundreds or thousands in other disciplines. There are not enough board-certified forensic pathologists to cover national need. The National Association of Medical Examiners' (NAME) Forensic Pathology Training Committee conducted a survey of its members to determine which factors influenced them to select forensic pathology as a career, and to offer suggestions about possible recruitment methods in the future.

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NAME and its history: implications for the future.

Am J Forensic Med Pathol

March 2002

Fulton County Medical Examiner's Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30312, USA.

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Pulmonary hemosiderin in deceased infants: baseline data for further study of infant mortality.

Am J Forensic Med Pathol

December 2000

Fulton County Medical Examiner's Center and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Infant lung samples were obtained prospectively at autopsy by medical examiner pathologists in five areas of the United States. Tissues were submitted regardless of the cause of death. Lung sections were stained with Prussian blue to detect deposits of hemosiderin.

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