Autopsy

Different autopsy methods are useful in different situations. I have previously mentioned Rokitansky method which involves examining the organs in situ “a condition sometimes mandated by a restrictive autopsy consent or severe time limitations” (Finkbeiner 35). But there are other methods that involve removal of the organs including Letulle, Ghon and Virchow. Both the Letulle and Virchow start the same way: a Y incision is made and the skin is reflected from the chest and abdomen. If the…

functioning that interferes with a person’s daily life. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older adults. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s and a definitive diagnosis can only be determined after death, with an autopsy. The disorder was first discovered in 1906 by Alios Alzheimer. He was a psychiatrist…

For my creative project I put together a case file based upon the fictional murder of Julia Stoner detailed in “The Speckled Band”, a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I wanted to make the case file look realistic so I used a manilla folder with a picture of the “Stoner twins” attached to the front. Since the case in the story was unsolved in 1982 and Sherlock Holmes solved the case in April of 1983, I included this information on the file. A case number is written on the top of the file to…

that misdiagnosis have decreased, and that medicine has improved. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, and we can’t blame it on medicine “doctors at Harvard put together a simple study. They went back into their hospital records to see how often autopsies picked up misdiagnoses in 1960 and 1970, before the advent of CT, ultrasound, nuclear scanning, and other technologies, and then in 1980, after those technologies became widely used. The researchers found no improvement. Regardless of the decade…

definition of AD revolves around the assumption that an individual with an amnestic dementia would have Alzheimer’s related brain changes, namely amyloid plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles, found at autopsy. Conversely, individuals without amnestic dementia would not found plaques or tangles at autopsy. This definition of Alzheimer’s intertwines the signs and symptoms of dementia and the underlying brain changes. Epidemiology With the increasing life expectancy and availability of better…

Many athletes that play college and professional football suffer from concussions often. Dr. Bennet Omalu did an autopsy on Michael Webster to discover that he had suffered, from having so many concussions and blows to the head, that he had a disease named chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy explains why so many famous athletes have had erratic behaviors and suffering from depression. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive degenerative disease of the…

citizens of Ferguson who then protested in effort to stand up for Brown who they believed was killed while surrendering. Considering all the evidence, the grand jury should not have indicted officer Wilson because the witnesses statements and the autopsy are in favor of what Wilson had reported. To start off, Wilson’s…

1. Scope and Significance: After as much as 4,000 years the Bog Bodies of Ireland, Britain and Denmark provide a rare window into the people of the past. After nature has preserved their bodies so well over those thousands of years it should be of prime importance to preserve them at least as well into the future. After being unearthed most Bog Bodies were either left to dry out or put in some type of liquid preservative such as formaldehyde neither of which is optimum. The discovery of new Bog…

Kapp, Maurer, Auwärter, Winkelmann, and Hermanns-Clausen (2011) describe a case of a 25-year-old male who developed jaundice and pruritus after ceasing to ingest Kratom. The patient had been using Kratom acquired “via the Internet (www.thai-kratom)” for two weeks (Kapp et al., 2011, para. 3). On the second day after having quit taking the Kratom powder the man began experiencing subjective fever and chills. Restlessness and insomnia was also reported by the patient, possibly signalling…

One obvious aspect of her autopsy report was an overall lack of oxygen, signified by a lack of gray nails and general pallor. This may have been caused by a weak heart, clogged blood vessels, or a genetic disease. This could also indicate choking. Another clue is inflamed injection…