[Peculiarities of wrist bone growth as a criterion for determining the biological age of children living under different environmental conditions].

The paper had the objective to study growth dynamics of short tubular wrist bones in children aged from 5 to 16 years and residing in the cities of Shelekhov and Irkutsk. The growth rate in the girls from Irkutsk was shown to be fairly uniform and proportional; in the boys, it substantially increased at the age of 10-11 and 15 years. In the boys living in Shelekhov, the bone growth became activated at the age of 9 and 15 years. In the girls, it was periodically uniform until the age of 9; thereafter, periodicity in the growth of middle and distal phalanxes was no longer apparent.

[On the criteria for the forensic medical appraisal of harm to the human health from thermal injuries].

"Rules for forensic medical determination of the severity of bodily injures" currently used in practical expertise are at some variance with the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. Their analysis taking into account the available clinical reports and the results of our original studies of archive materials made it possible to propose and substantiate additional criteria for the assessment of harm to the human health from thermal injuries.

[Establishing the personal identity of the victims in aviation catastrophes]. / Ob ustanovlenii lichnosti pogibshikh pri aviatsionnykh katastrofakh.

Algorithm of organization measures and expert investigations is proposed, based on experience gained in expert studies during liquidation of aircraft catastrophes. It permits effective classification, differentiation, and identification of victims and is based on traditional and high technological methods of investigation.

[The forensic medical evaluation of the results of determining diatomaceous plankton in the diagnosis of drowning]. / Sudebno-meditsinskaia otsenka rezul'tatov opredeleniia diatomovogo planktona v diagnostike utopleniia.

Evaluation of demonstrative value of method based on diatom plankton determination as a diagnostical sign of death due to drowning was performed. Plankton was detected in the viscera in 37% of cases (as a whole 376 bodies of people who drowned in fresh water were examined). Plankton was detected in aspiration type of drowning and its mixed variant. In spastic and reflector types of drowning plankton wasn't detected. According to author's opinion this method is an objective diagnostical test to determine the cause of death of people when their bodies are found in water.

[The expert assessment of the sign of the presence of fluid in the basilar sinus in the diagnosis of drowning]. / Ekspertnaia otsenka priznaka nalichiia zhidkosti v pazukhe osnovnoi kosti pri diagnostike utopleniia.

Incidence of fluid presence (drowning medium) in basilar bone sinus of dead bodies found in water was studied according to pathogenetic type of drowning. Method of quantitative assessment of this sign in medicolegal evaluation of the cause of death when dead bodies were found in water is suggested.

[Determining the type of drowning based on the levels of blood in the thoracic duct lymph]. / Obosnovanie tipa utopleniia po vyrazhennosti limfogemii v grudnom protoke.

The degree of lymphogemy in persons who died of different causes (including drowning) was studied by histologic analysis of the thoracic lymphatic ducts. It was found that quantitative estimation of the presented feature makes it possible to estimate the specific type of drowning which depends on the level of venous hypertension in the system of superior vena cava. This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.