title: Usefulness of post-mortem ophthalmological endoscopy during forensic autopsy: a case report.
abstract: Post-mortem intraocular findings in two autopsy cases with traumatic intracranial haemorrhage were obtained using an ophthalmological endoscope. The endoscopy results clearly revealed the presence of intraocular haemorrhages and papilledema caused by intracranial haemorrhage. Post-mortem ophthalmological endoscopy offers several benefits. First, post-mortem intraocular findings can be directly observed in corpses with post-mortem clouding of the cornea. Secondly, the endoscopy only requires a 0.9 mm incision in the sclera and does not require the removal of the eye from the corpse, a procedure that should be avoided for ethical and cosmetic reasons. Thus, post-mortem opthalmological endoscopy is a useful method for obtaining intraocular findings in autopsies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1194, Japan. tsujinaka@msi.biglobe.ne.jp
authors.forename: Masatake
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsujinaka
authors.forename: Kayoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akaza
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagai
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bunai
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001344:Autopsy; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005130:Eye Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D020198:Intracranial Hemorrhage, Traumatic / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010211:Papilledema / Q000209:etiology*; D014821:Vitrectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods