Forensic neuropathology

Title Statements

Full title :Forensic neuropathology / edited by Helen Whitwell, Christopher Milroy, Daniel du Plessis.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021
Edition:2nd edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Boca Raton
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

The Physical Object

Description:218 pages : : illustrations ; : 28 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781498706162, 1498706169
oclc:on1280304841

[Contents] Anatomy of the head and neck. -- Clinical aspects of head injury. -- Imaging of head trauma. -- Biomechanics of primary traumatic head injury. -- Techniques. -- Scalp, facial and gunshot injuries. -- Adult skull fractures. -- Intra cranial haematomas -extradural and subdural. -- Subarachnoid haemorrhage and cerebrovascular traumatic pathology. -- Contusional brain injury and intracerebral haemorrhage-traumatic and non-traumatic. -- Traumatic axonal injury. -- Brain swelling, raised intracranial pressure and hypoxia- related brain injury. -- Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. -- Contact sport and blast related neuropathology. -- Head injury in the child with ocular pathology -- Spinal injury and pathology. -- Difficult areas in forensic pathology : Homicide, suicide or accident. -- Non traumatic neurological conditions in medicolegal work. -- Alcohol, drugs, toxins and post- mortem toxicology. -- The role of the expert witness