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Medical records and expert opinion are very important in resolving various issues of law. This importance has increased recently as the result of growing number of cases before the courts....
Followings are results from analyzing 263 responses out of 1,000 survey questionaires, which were mailed to Korean psychiatrists, for purpose to discover current status of psychiatric accidents in Korea, and...
The lungs are constructed to carry out their cardinal function, the exchange of gases between inspired air and the blood. Because of air pollution and smoking, primary respiratory infections, such...
There are several types of medical certificates and written expert opinions (or judicial reports) which medical doctors have to issue. Author summarized medicolegal demand on medical certificates and written expert...
An embolus is a detached intravasclar solid, liquid, or gaseous mass that is carried by the blood to a site distant from its point of origin. Virtually 90% of all...
Injury is generally defined as morphological changes due to physical or chemical stress, inflammatory or repair process, or secondary events of the other disease. In the nontraumatic injuries of the...
Most autopsy cases of fetus or infants in Korea are deaths of prematurity or death after birth arising medical dispute. It is natural to closely examine the all organs at...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a routine procedure to survive the patient when abrupt cardiac failure develops. External cardiac compression with respiratory care is usually done, which produce much artifacts such...
It is important to have adequate knowledge of the circumstances surround ing the death before the start of an autopsy, as identical autopsy findings may be interpreted quite differently under...
Two polymorphic loci, so- called FS106 and FS185, have been isolated from the human genome, using a multilocus probe pV47-2, which is extensively used in Korea for forensic investigation such...
A multi-locus probe. called pHK-450. detecting multiple variable DNA fragments, was constructed by cloning of the 450 bp fragments into pCR(TM) vector, which could be obtained from amplification of the...