Postmortem Lividity and Rigor Mortis |
Jyung Sik Kwak |
Department of Forensic Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine |
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Abstract |
Postmortem lividity and rigor mortis are early changes which appear during the first 12 hours after death. These changes are occasionally available in cases of estimating the time of death and detection of circumstances at the moment of death and movement of cadavor after death etc. This review is prepared to reevaluate the signifieances of postmortem lividity and rigor mortis in forensic investigation. This paper is described on the mechanisms, pattern or distributions, and significances in legal medicine of postmortem lividity and rigor mortis. |
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