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  • Title: [Study of elastic fiber changes of human skin in distinction between antemortem and postmortem wounds].
    Author: Lu QL.
    Journal: Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi; 1999 Feb; 15(1):7-8, 62. PubMed ID: 12536387.
    Abstract:
    Elastic fiber changes of volunteers' antemortem and postmortem skin wounds of various time were observed in order to find possible differences between them. These sections of the wounds were stained by Hart's modification of Weigert's elastic tissue stain.. However, this study showed that there were no differences in the nature and distribution of the elastic fibers in the dermis of volunteers' antemortem and postmortem human skin wounds. Therefore, this suggests that the appearances of the elastic fibers in the dermis should not be as a means of differentiating antemortem skin wounds from postmortem wounds in forensic identification.
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