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    • Airborne pollen and spores’ deposition in alveolar tissues as a tool in drowning forensic diagnosis 

      García-Mozo, H.; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Badu, Isaak K.; Jimena, Ignacio; Girela-Lopez, Eloy (Springer, 2021)
      We report the results of a histological study of lung samples where an unusual quantity of airborne pollen and fungal spores was found in drowned rats. Pollen and spores were found in lungs of drowned rats but not in the ...

    • Diatoms in forensic analysis: A practical approach in rats 

      Badu, Isaak K.; Girela López, Eloy; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Ruz‐Caracuel, Ignacio; Jimena, Ignacio (Sage, 2014)
      A diagnosis of drowning is a challenge in legal medicine, as there is generally a lack of pathognomonic findings indicative of drowning. Diatom analysis has been considered very supportive for a diagnosis of drowning, ...

    • Epidemiology and autopsy findings of 500 drowning deaths 

      Girela López, Eloy; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Dye, Amanda; Gill, James R. (Elsevier, 2021)
      Introduction: Drowning is a significant public health problem worldwide and the WHO reported that drowning is the world’s third leading unintentional injury death. Nevertheless, there is still uncertainty regarding the ...

    • Structural abnormalities in the human diaphragm in drowning and hanging deaths: preliminary results 

      Girela López, Eloy; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Jimena, Ignacio; Pérez-Jorge, Pablo; Ramos-Medina, Valentin; Ruz‐Caracuel, Ignacio; Gill, James R.; Peña Amaro, J. (Springer, 2020)
      Purpose: Previous experiments in rats have indicated that there are histological changes in skeletal muscle in drowning deaths; these changes includemuscle fibers that contain ragged red fibers (RRF). The purpose of this ...