The diagnosis of time of death is often complex and it is even more difficult in the case of a fetus dead in-utero affected by macerative post-mortal phenomena. The criteria currently available in scientific literature can turn to be inappropriate or useless in clinical practice, where the medical examiner often experience a complete mismatch between morphological and clinical data. The present work arises from the necessity to update these thanatological criteria. After a review of the literature so far, the actual validity of thanatological criteria has been assessed through a retrospective...
The diagnosis of time of death is often complex and it is even more difficult in the case of a fetus dead in-utero affected by macerative post-mortal ...
