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Sudden unexpected death due to Fournier's gangreneY Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
Int J Legal Med 110:104-6. 1997..An autopsy revealed necrotizing fasciitis in the genitalia and lower abdominal wall. The man was considered to have died from endotoxic shock following on Fournier's gangrene...
Sudden death due to undiagnosed intracranial hemangiopericytomaYasuo Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 29:170-2. 2008..The cause of death was thought to be neurogenic pulmonary edema caused by the rapid growth of a hemangiopericytoma, with intratumoral hemorrhage...
Myocardial damage by resuscitation methodsYasuo Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasamachi, Gifu 500 8705, Japan
Leg Med (Tokyo) 5:S302-6. 2003..When direct current countershocks had been performed, focal MFD in the subepicardial zone appeared to be a characteristic feature...
Traumatic rupture of the basilar artery: report of two cases and review of the literatureY Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 21:343-8. 2000....
Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left sinus of Valsalva: report of two casesY Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasamachi, Gifu 500 8705, Japan
Forensic Sci Int 123:254-6. 2001..In the second case, a 21-year-old woman died by drowning in a bath, probably after an episode of syncope brought about by anomalous origin of the RCA from the LSV...
Blunt pancreatic trauma by a wheelchair user restraint system during a traffic accidentY Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
J Forensic Sci 46:965-7. 2001..Blunt pancreatic trauma in a passenger or a restrained driver is rare. In this report, we describe a case of blunt pancreatic trauma caused by a restraint system for wheelchair users during a traffic accident...
Posttraumatic thrombosis of the middle cerebral arteryY Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 22:299-302. 2001..It was concluded that the blows to the head and face caused a partial rupture in the arterial wall, leading to thrombosis and cerebral infarction...
The STR locus D11S554: allele frequencies and sequence data in a Japanese populationY Watanabe
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
Int J Legal Med 115:176-8. 2001..Out of the 46 different alleles, 11 showed sequence heterogeneity. The results of this study demonstrated that the D11S554 locus is a powerful and useful genetic marker for forensic practice in the Japanese population...
Regional variations of vertebral trabecular bone microstructure with age and genderH Chen
Department of Anatomy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1 1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501 1194, Japan
Osteoporos Int 19:1473-83. 2008....
Age- and gender-dependent changes in three-dimensional microstructure of cortical and trabecular bone at the human femoral neckH Chen
Department of Anatomy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
Osteoporos Int 21:627-36. 2010..We found that age-related change of cortical porosity is more noticeable than that of trabecular parameter. Our data may help to gain more insight into the potential mechanism of osteoporotic femoral neck fractures...
Increase of fragmented DNA transport in apical dendrites of gerbil CA1 pyramidal neurons following transient forebrain ischemia by mild hypothermiaA Hara
Department of Pathology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
Neurosci Lett 280:73-7. 2000..Increase of fragmented DNA pooling is highly temperature sensitive, occurring at 38 degrees C, while at 39 degrees C there is a marked decrease in DNA pooling...
Failure of preventive effects of 2-deoxy-D-glucose on ischemia-induced gerbil hippocampal neuronal damage by induced hyperthermiaA Hara
Department of Pathology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
Brain Res 840:167-70. 1999..In the present study, we demonstrated hyperthermia during ischemia fails to preserve neurons in hippocampal CA1 of 2-DG treated gerbil following transient forebrain ischemia...
Sequence polymorphism of mitochondrial DNA in Japanese individuals from Gifu PrefectureAtsushi Nagai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa Machi, Gifu 500 8705, Japan
Leg Med (Tokyo) 5:S210-3. 2003..985 and 0.022, respectively. The C-stretch region located around position 16189 was observed in 23.4% of this population sample. Sequence heteroplasmy at the position 16103 (A/G) was found in one individual...
Fatal hyperthermia associated with excited delirium during an arrestYasuo Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu 501 1194, Japan
Leg Med (Tokyo) 10:306-9. 2008..Neither addictive drugs nor alcohol were detected from the blood or urine. The suspect was concluded to have died of fatal hyperthermia in a state of excited delirium...
Iatrogenic rupture of the left gastric artery during percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomyYasuo Bunai
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1 1 Yanagido, Gifu City, Gifu 501 1194, Japan
Leg Med (Tokyo) 11:S538-40. 2009..Gastric arterial rupture is a rare but serious and potentially fatal complication of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). We report a case in which insertion of a needle during PEG caused iatrogenic rupture of the left gastric artery...
Neuronal apoptosis studied by a sequential TUNEL technique: a method for tract-tracingA Hara
Department of Pathology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa Machi, Gifu 500 8705, Japan
Brain Res Brain Res Protoc 4:140-6. 1999..Although this method can identify only the apical dendrites of cells that are undergoing apoptosis during the limited period, some projections of the gerbil hippocampal CA1 neurons undergoing apoptosis are clearly demonstrated...
Sudden cardiac death caused by a primary intimal sarcoma of the left coronary arteryWei Xiong Jiang
Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Yanagido, Gifu 501 1194, Japan
Int J Legal Med 123:503-6. 2009..We report a case of fatal cardiac infarction caused by an intimal sarcoma originating in the left coronary artery which exhibited immunophenotypic features that were consistent with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation...
Elder abuse and neglect: social problems revealed from 15 autopsy casesKayoko Akaza
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
Leg Med (Tokyo) 5:7-14. 2003..In the neglect cases, dementia and difficulty in performing activities of daily living were considered to be risk factors for victims, in addition to living in social isolation...
DNA typing from cigarette buttsYoshihisa Watanabe
Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Gifu Prefectural Police Headquarters, 2 1 1 Yabuta minami, Gifu 500 8501, Japan
Leg Med (Tokyo) 5:S177-9. 2003..The present data indicate that the degradation of high-molecular weight DNA and the inhibition of PCR by dyes of the cigarette end should be kept in mind when performing DNA typing using cigarette ends...
