title: Sex determination of severely burned bodies.
abstract: Kidney, thyroid gland, liver, striated muscle and cerebral cortex from ten males and six females who died with severe burns were examined with regard to sex determination using Y-chromosome detection. A control group of sixteen persons was compared. Only the kidneys offered a reliable sex determination. Thyroid gland presented high false positive values, the liver one false-negative and striated muscle and cerebral cortex both false negative and positive values. When heating liver and kidney it was demonstrated that temperatures higher than 150 degrees C made the detection difficult.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014998:Y Chromosome