Citation

Opeskin K. Med. Sci. Law 1992; 32(1): 58-60.

Affiliation

Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, South Melbourne, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1740984

Abstract

The case of a young man who died unexpectedly from myocarditis is presented. The body was partially embalmed before autopsy at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology. Although the cause of death was not a problem to diagnose, this case highlights artefacts that embalming may cause and the difficulties it may create with interpretation of injury. This is of particular relevance to those forensic pathologists who only uncommonly see injuries which are due to embalming.

Language: en