{"title":"[Ustinov Porphyriy Vasilyevich - founder of forensic medicine of the Middle Urals].","authors":"N V Permyakova","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256802163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256802163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The history of formation and organization of the department of forensic medicine and development of forensic medical activity in the Urals remain to date poorly explored, there are no scientific studies in this direction. The article presents the biography of professor Ustinov Porphyriy Vasilyevich, the founder of the department of forensic medicine at the Sverdlovsk State Medical Institute, who headed it from 1935 to 1971. Professor was a leading forensic scientist who stood at the origins of domestic forensic science.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 2","pages":"63-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144062712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Forensic medical assessment of fractures' morphological criteria for determination of the mechanisms of tibial shaft destruction in case of fall from height].","authors":"A R Sushko, V I Bakhmetiev","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256804143","DOIUrl":"10.17116/sudmed20256804143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study objective was to investigate the tibia fractures morphology depending on the position of victim at the time of injury when falling from height. The article presents the results of mathematical statistics which was carried out to justify scientifically the expert approach to reconstruction of accident circumstances in a fall from height with various landing options. The study results can be used to determine the position of the victim's body at the moment of landing, as well as to specify the height of fall.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 4","pages":"43-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145030969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Expert evaluation of stillbirth in forensic medical practice].","authors":"E M Kildyushov, A V Kopylov, M V Berlay","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256802155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256802155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An analysis of literature and regulatory documents with identification of problematic issues of expert assessment of stillbirth is presented. The necessity of implementation of explanations into expert regulatory documents and methodological instructions of «neonatality», «signs of recent birth», «neonatal period», «vitality» concepts according to generally accepted criteria in world and Russian medicine has been shown. The importance of explaining the qualification of the antenatal and intranatal fetal death from a forensic point of view has been presented. The significance of improving the unified methodology for producing commission forensic examinations of obstetric and gynecological profile has been determined. The features of determining the age of intrauterine fetal death, taking into account macro- and microscopic changes have been indicated. The need to re-examine the histological archive of autopsy material and afterbirth has been noted. The importance of interdisciplinary cooperation between doctors - forensic experts, pathologists, obstetrician-gynecologists and neonatologists in order to perform commission forensic examinations in cases of stillbirth has been shown.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 2","pages":"55-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144036962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A A Gusarov, V L Sidorov, N E Surikova, O D Yagmurov
{"title":"[Organ and species identification of liver microparticles using forensic cytology and quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay methods].","authors":"A A Gusarov, V L Sidorov, N E Surikova, O D Yagmurov","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256804129","DOIUrl":"10.17116/sudmed20256804129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To establish organ affiliation of liver microparticles using forensic cytological method based on hepatocytes' morphological characteristics and to determine their species belonging according to the human IgG<sub>total</sub> using a quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Previously dried microparticles (from 0.2×0.1 to 0.2×0.3 cm in size) of the liver taken from the corpses of 8 people without signs of liver disease were examined. The samples were investigated using forensic cytological and quantitative ELISA methods by the «total-IgG-ELISA-HEMA» test-kit.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The possibility of determining organ affiliation of the liver microparticles based on hepatocytes' morphological characteristics stained with acrichine, acridine orange and azure-eosin has been demonstrated. It has been established that the high sensitivity and specificity of quantitative ELISA allow to determine the origin of liver microparticles from human. Optical density and IgG<sub>total</sub> concentration in whole extracts were determined, optimal values of minimum and maximum calibration samples, namely 0.078±0.010-2.372±0.019 c.u., were obtained.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The obtained data can be used by experts of forensic biological units in establishing organ and species affiliation of liver microparticles found on trauma guns using forensic cytology and quantitative ELISA methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 4","pages":"29-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145030980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Forensic medical evaluation of idiomuscular contracture].","authors":"E V Tumanov, E M Kildyushov, D N Uslontsev","doi":"10.17116/sudmed2025680219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed2025680219","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To study the response of mouse to postmortem local impact (idiomuscular contracture) with determination of the maximum time of its occurrence.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A device in the form of a metal ruler with applied horizontal metric scale was developed and manufactured in order to standardize the test for idiomuscular contracture. Data of 3480 studies performed on 870 corpses of individuals who died at the age of newborn to 97 years were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results and conclusion: </strong>There has been no statistically significant difference in height of the idiomuscular tumor depending on the age of death in any of the studied age groups. It has been established that the death age must be determined in forensic medical examination by qualitative indicators of the idiomuscular contracture, considering the age and general physical condition of the deceased.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 2","pages":"9-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144031628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Determination of «solar factor» magnitude in mathematical simulation of the process of corpse's temperature change of under conditions of insolation].","authors":"S A Belykh, A Yu Vavilov","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256802125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256802125","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To develop the method of quantitative assessment of the solar radiation influence on the dynamics of postmortem corpse's cooling in determining the age of human death by means of a special modification of a finite-difference (layered) mathematical model.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>The studies were carried out on replacing corpse objects of different mass (bags made of dense polyethylene filled with black soil) and on real objects of forensic medical examination - adult corpses of different sexes. All the objects were wrapped in fabric of different colors, imitating clothes, and were studied under conditions of direct solar radiation impact on the body. Temperature of the objects was measured with a highly precise (0.001 °C) digital thermometer in dynamics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>On the basis of the created finite-difference mathematical model, the thermodynamics of objects has been studied and the «solar factor» magnitude has been established depending on the body mass, time of year, clothing fabric brightness (its photoperceptive ability). The formula for calculating the «solar factor» magnitude is proposed for use of its value in the process of simulation the corpse's temperature under the influence of solar radiation and determining the human's postmortem interval.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The ratio of the real postmortem interval and its simulated (calculated) values allowed to estimate a possible error in the death age determination, accumulated over 6.4-8.5 h of observations as ±0.42 h (± 25 min).</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 2","pages":"25-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Criminal-legal assessment of causality in violations of medical care committed at different stages].","authors":"Z B Soktoev, V A Spiridonov","doi":"10.17116/sudmed2025680115","DOIUrl":"10.17116/sudmed2025680115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors used a practical example to consider proper criminal-legal assessment of causality in multiple violations committed by different doctors at different stages of providing medical care. The consideration utilized the dialectical methods of cognition, analysis, generalization, systems approach, methods of induction, deduction, comparison, statistics, and special legal methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 1","pages":"5-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E V Tumanov, E M Kildyushov, I A Tolmachev, S V Karlov
{"title":"[About compliance with the real conditions of adopted forensic models of the victim's fall from standing position on the back].","authors":"E V Tumanov, E M Kildyushov, I A Tolmachev, S V Karlov","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256801150","DOIUrl":"10.17116/sudmed20256801150","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article considers adopted forensic models of the victim's fall from standing position on the back and their adequacy to the real conditions. A frame-by-frame analysis of 250 video recordings of cases of victims' falls from standing position on the back - both spontaneous and with a preliminary given acceleration was performed. It has been noted that the most commonly used today forensic models do not correspond to the real dynamics of the fall.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 1","pages":"50-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E N Leonova, M N Nagornov, M Yu Makarova, R V Kalinin
{"title":"[Flow pattern characteristics depending on angle of inclination of bloodstained surface].","authors":"E N Leonova, M N Nagornov, M Yu Makarova, R V Kalinin","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256803128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256803128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study is to determine the flow pattern characteristics depending on the angle of inclination of the surface on which bloodstains are formed. A large drip of donor human blood 80 µL was used. Experimental rectilinear strip-shaped flow patterns on the glass were obtained. The surface had a inclination of 30°, 45°, 60°, 75°. With increasing inclination angle, the length of the flow patterns increases from 24.5±0.07 to 48.3±0.02 cm, while the width decreases from 0.8±0.04 to 0.5±0.03 cm. The elements of the flow pattern structure are designated «head», «body» and end part. It is proposed to distinguish two types of flow pattern: the first one is formed when blood flows out of wound, the second one is formed when a drip or a limited blood mass falls on vertical or inclined surface.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 3","pages":"28-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Forensic graphology. Criminalistic aspect].","authors":"O E Roslova, V Yu Vladimirov, I A Tolmachev","doi":"10.17116/sudmed20256803111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256803111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article describes the epistemological prerequisites for the use of special knowledge in the field of forensic medicine in the production of forensic graphology examinations in relation to potentially forged signatures. The authors emphasize the existence of functional unity when considering the process of cognition of such objects as a dynamic stereotype and a writing and motor skills in the performance of graphology examinations with a low level of identifying information content between such sciences as the general theory of forensic examination, methodology of forensic graphology and forensic medicine. Some provisions from earlier works of the famous Soviet and Russian scientist, forensic physician and criminologist V.V. Tomilin are given. The article substantiates the need to include the stage of an expert experiment aimed at increasing the level of cognition of a dynamic stereotype implemented through the writing and motor skills of the performer in the structure of forensic graphology examination in relation to potentially forged signatures. This article is a means of legitimization of the idea being developed by the authors on restructuring of the conclusion of the expert graphologist with the inclusion of the expert experiment stage on a methodological basis of the comprehensive use of specialized knowledge in the field of judicial graphology and forensic medicine in the research process.</p>","PeriodicalId":35704,"journal":{"name":"Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa","volume":"68 3","pages":"11-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}