Technical and interpretive pitfalls of postmortem CT: Five examples of errors revealed by autopsy

• Published in: Journal of forensic sciences Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 395 - 403
• Main Authors: Yoshida, Maiko, Makino, Yohsuke, Hoshioka, Yumi, Saito, Naoki, Yamaguchi, Rutsuko, Chiba, Fumiko, Inokuchi, Go, Iwase, Hirotaro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Autopsies; Autopsy; Cause of Death; Computed tomography; Death; Diagnostic Errors; Errors; Forensic Pathology; forensic radiology; Humans; Image acquisition; Japan; Medical imaging; Medical personnel; misinterpretation; Physicians; Police; Postmortem Changes; postmortem computed tomography; Resuscitation; Textbooks; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; postmortem computed tomography; misinterpretation; forensic radiology; forensic pathology; autopsy; Japan

Image acquisition of dead bodies, particularly using postmortem computed tomography (PMCT), has become common in forensic investigations worldwide. Meanwhile, in countries such as Japan which have an extremely low rate of autopsy, PMCT is being increasingly used in the clinical field to certify the...