VENTURA , Francesco

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The authors describe the case of a suicide with a shotgun charged with 9 caliber Flobert cartridge, that, if shot at a distance, generally does not cause mortal wounds. In the case in re, on the contrary, the mortal gunshot had been discharged in contact with the roof of the mouth causing not particularly destroying cranium-encephalic...

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The personal identification of living subjects through video filmed images can occasionally be necessary, particularly in the following circumstances: (1) the need to identify unknown subjects by comparing two-dimensional images of someone of known identity with the subject. (2) The need to identify subjects taken in photographs or recorded on...

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Ants postmortem actions on a dead body can result in skin damage, featuring traumatic antemortem or in limine vitae events. Three observed cases are reported here where skin damages by ants' predatory activity led us to differentiate from accidental or voluntary injuries.Described cases show how the relevant skin lesions and consequential...

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Negli ultimi anni, a fronte dell'intenso dibattito sviluppatosi in dottrina e giurisprudenza in relazione alle soglie di accertamento del nesso causale, in ambito civilistico è emersa una nuova fattispecie di danno definita "perdita di chance". Con tale termine si fa riferimento alla perdita di una concreta ed effettiva occasione favorevole di...

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ABSTRACT: The present report describes the sudden death of a 3-year-old female child who had been clinically diagnosed with Leigh syndrome.Leigh syndrome is a heterogeneous progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which is characterized by focal or bilateral lesions in the thalamus, basal ganglia, brainstem, cerebellum, and spinal cord. Affected...

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ABSTRACT: Death due to lightning strikes is infrequent, above all indoors. Some cases may take on a medical legal interest due to the unusual and uncommon circumstances in which they occur. The authors report an extremely rare case of electrocution occurred inside a house in a rural area. A 53-year-old man was reached by an electrical discharge...

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A case of sudden death in a subject with congenital absence of pericardium is presented. Autopsy description and hystological findings gave evidence of an acute myocardial necrosys. No clinical data were reported before sudden death.

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In this report, two cases of death in patients diagnosed with multi-systemic AA amyloidosis at autopsy were investigated for any medical errors that may have contributed to their deaths. The patients developed nephrotic syndrome post-operatively and following trauma. The second patient had been on hemodialysis for idiopathic kidney disease...

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Pregnancy is a well-known risk factor for aortic dissection and half of the cases reported in women under 40 years of age have been estimated to occur during pregnancy, usually during the third trimester. The authors present a case of unexpected maternal death due to acute aortic dissection in a woman at the 41st week of gestation with silent...