title: CT-guided percutaneous needle placement in forensic medicine.
abstract: We have developed a technique of CT-guided needle placement in the destructed human body in forensic practice. A sixty-year-old male was found in a burned car and he was also destructed severely. Although blood was needed for the external examination, it was difficult to approach the vessels because of the severely burned condition of the cadaver. Thus, we attempted to obtain a blood sample from a vessel using a CT-guided technique. Postmortem CT demonstrated the presence of blood-containing vessels in the pelvis. Indeed, CT-guided needle placement had no difficulty with surface markers, table location, or depth measurement from the surface. CT-guide needle placement is a feasible and reliable technique, so that when the tissue/blood sample is at risk of being spoiled, CT-guided needle placement could be a substitute for conventional sampling techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan. Electronic address: hyodoh@sapmed.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hyodoh
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Jyunya
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizuo
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Shunichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okazaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiromasa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inoue
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009339:Needles; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Burning; CO-Hb; CT-guided; Needle placement; Postmortem CT