Citation

Mangin P, Krompecher T, Brandt-Casadevall C, Horisberger B. J. Med. Leg. Droit Med. 1997; 40(7-8): 507-510.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Masson)

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Abstract

It is commonly accepted by the medico-legal community that a forensic autopsy should be fully performed whatever the case including dissection of all the organs and careful examination of some crucial regions like the neck area and genitals. Such an autopsy examination does not require expensive equipments but only a minimum of competence and professional integrity. In this respect several protocols have been elaborated and widely published. Nevertheless, autopsies on repatriated bodies from some foreign countries where a prior postmortem examination is said to have been done, reveal sometimes surprising findings specially given the cause of death notified after the first investigation. To illustrate this, we present two recent cases submitted to our institute for a second autopsy.

Language: fr

Keywords

Death abroad; Forensic autopsy; Second examination