Cadaveric fluids

Active decay represents the period of greatest mass loss (Figure 2.2), which results from the release of cadaveric fluids into the soil. This flux can cause... 

An exposed body with traumas can decompose faster than an exposed body that has not encountered trauma (, Bass, and Meadows 1990). This is due to the attraction of insects to open wounds, where oviposition occurs. It is unknown how trauma affects the formation of CDI. However, it is likely that it results in a more rapid rate of CDI formation by allowing cadaveric fluids to enter the soil more readily. 

Nakamura and Way determined morphine and codeine in cadaverous body fluids and tissue samples after extraction with organic solvent and derivatization with N,0-bis(trimethylsilyl) acetamide, using nalorphine as an internal standard and OV-17 3 % and UCW-98 3.8 X as station ary phases. 

In attempting to understand the human body, much can be learned from material and fluids testing and cadaveric examination. These processes do not, in general, determine the relative forces and interactions between structures. They are also not able to determine the stresses within hard or soft tissue nor the patterns of flow due to the interaction of red blood cells within the vascular system. 

Moss SG, Schweitzer ME, Jacobson JA et al (1998) Hip joint fluid detection and distribution at MR imaging and US with cadaveric correlation. Radiology 208 43-48 Mukhopadhyay K, Smith M, Hughes PM (2006) Multifocal PVNS in a child followed over 25 years. Skeletal Radiol 35 539-542... 

Fig. 4.2. 25. Bile duct anastomotic stricture. A 37-year-old female status post fulminant acute hepatitis A, followed by orthotopic cadaveric liver transplant presenting now with abnormal liver function tests. Coronal thick-slab T2-weighted single-shot fast spin echo (SSFSE) MRCP image shows a short-segment stenosis (arrow) at the biliary anastomosis with upstream dilatation of the common bile duct. The remnant of the cystic duct (arrowhead) and a small amount of hyperintense fluid in the duodenal lumen (asterisk) are also seen...

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