[Pathomorphology of shock-related changes as a criterion for age dating of injury].

The necessity of integrated approach to age dating of injuries implies the search for new diagnostic criteria. Shock may be one of them. Analysis of shock-related morphological changes in the affected and intact tissues along with concomitant inflammatory reactions permits to more accurately determine the length of the post-trauma period.

[The diagnostic potentials of dynamometry indices in resolving the question of the time of death]. / Diagnosticheskie vozmozhnosti pokazatelei dinamometrii pri reshenii voprosa o davnosti nastupleniia smerti.

Table of dynamometry values for different intervals of the postmortem period cannot be used in cases when livores mortis beyond the lumbosacral area are examined, specifically, when the corpse is found lying with the face down. The process of formation of livor mortis is individual and runs a specific course in every corpse and in its different sites. Dynamometry of hypostases can be informative only during the first 16 h postmortem; in later periods the time course of dynamometry is unstable. Dynamometry can be used only as a tentative diagnostic test when solving the problem of the time of death and only together with other methods.