Alessandro Cristalli

Dr. Alessandro Cristalli

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 September 2023 in International journal of legal medicine
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MCMariagrazia Calvano
Mariagrazia Calvano
ACAlessandro Cristalli
Alessandro Cristalli
FMFederica Mele
Federica Mele
MLMirko Leonardelli
Mirko Leonardelli
GMGianluca Musci
Gianluca Musci
FIFrancesco Introna
Francesco Introna

11 October 2024 in Forensic Sciences
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SDStefano Duma
Stefano Duma
FMFederica Mele
Federica Mele
MCMariagrazia Calvano
Mariagrazia Calvano
MLMirko Leonardelli
Mirko Leonardelli
EMEnrica Macorano
Enrica Macorano
FIFrancesco Introna
Francesco Introna
Background: When the body temperature falls below 35 °C, a condition known as hypothermia occurs. This renders it impossible to regulate the body temperature and produce heat. In these cases, death is due to a cessation of vital functions and is triggered by a body temperature below 25 °C. A multidisciplinary approach is typically required when hypothermia is suspected to combine circumstantial evidence, external examination, autopsy, microscopic and biochemical findings, and other data useful to assess the diagnosis of fatal hypothermia. Post-mortem diagnosis of death by hypothermia frequently presents a medico-legal dilemma. Methods and Results: The authors present a case of hypothermia in which site inspection, autopsy, and histological examination simultaneously revealed the forensic and anatomopathological characteristic findings of hypothermia with some peculiar evidence: paradoxical undressing, thanatochronological phenomena, frost erythema, polyvisceral congestion and Wischnewski spots, and subnuclear vacuolization of renal tubular epithelial cells.