Citation

Cecchi R, Aromatario M, Frati P, Lucidi D, Ciallella C. Int. J. Legal Med. 2012; 126(6): 957-960.

Affiliation

Department of Anatomical, Histological, Legal Medical and Orthopaedic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, rossana.cecchi@uniroma1.it.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00414-012-0761-z

PMID

22923216

Abstract

We present a case in which the timing of injuries was requested to determine whether the death of a man found in a landfill was due to homicide or accident. The use of immunohistochemistry to detect P-selectin and E-selectin on endothelial cells of vessels in damaged skin samples, and compare them with intact skin samples, as well as the presence of lung adipose embolism provide information on the timing of the injury, thereby helping substantially to identify the dynamics of death.

Language: en