DESCRIPTION:
Up-to-date text covering all facets of the forensic pathology of infancy and childhood with contributions from international experts
Covers the variable manifestations of natural conditions resulting in unexpected death from in utero life through to adolescence
Discusses a wide range of topics including mimickers of child abuse, lesions and injuries from folk medicine practices, metabolic disorders and their evaluation, scene examination, autopsy photography and expert evidence
CONTENTS:
1. The History of Pediatric Forensic Pathology and the Pediatric Autopsy
2. Death Scene Investigation
3. The Autopsy
4. Fetal, Perinatal and Neonatal Death
5. Birth Trauma
6. Placental and Maternal Conditions
7. Neonaticide
8. Fatal Craniocerebral and Spinal Trauma
9. Biomechanics of Head Injury
10. Ocular Findings in Inflicted Injury
11. Blunt Abdominal and Chest Injuries
12. Cutaneous Findings in the Young
13. The Pathological Evaluation of Fractures at Autopsy
14. Dating of Other Injuries
15. Homicide in the Older Child
16. Sexual Abuse
17. Starvation, Dehydration, Malnutrition, and Fatal Neglect
18. Poisoning and Toxicological Issues
19. Factitious Illness by Proxy
20. Conditions Simulating Inflicted Injury
21. Resuscitation-Related Injuries and Artefacts
22. Folk Healing Lesions and Injuries
23. Neuroimaging in Abuse
24. Non-CNS Imaging in Cases of Abuse
25. The Role of the Virtopsy
26. Expert Testimony
27. Suicide
28. The Investigation of Possible Asphyxial Deaths in Infancy
29. Sports-Related Injuries and Deaths
30. Other Types of Accidental Deaths
31. Iatrogenic Deaths
32. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) and Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood (SUDC)
33. Other Causes of Sudden Natural Death in Infancy and Early Childhood
34. Cardiac Channelopathies and the Molecular Autopsy
35. Other Cardiac Conditions
36. Other Natural Deaths in the Older Child
37. Obesity
38. Metabolic Diseases
39. Ancillary Testing and Special Dissections
40. Death Certification
41. Pediatric Anthropology and Odontology
42. Pediatric Organ and Tissue Donation
