Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office

Recent papers from Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office

1. Development of a universal primer set for the identification of enterovirus serotypes using next-generation sequencingLegal Medicine · 2026
2. Impact of independent scrutiny on the death certification process in England and WalesMedico-Legal Journal · 2026
3. Sudden death from non-traumatic right atrial appendage rupture: an autopsy caseLegal Medicine · 2026
4. Secular Changes in Cranial Morphology and Pattern of Sexual Dimorphism in Modern Japanese: A Geometric Morphometric Analysis Using Post‐Mortem Computed Tomography DataAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology · 2026
5. A Japanese Way of Mental Support of Disaster Victims’ Families: Development of Japan DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) AssociationPrehospital and Disaster Medicine · 2026
6. Learning from deathsAdvances in Perioperative Care · 2025
7. Examining trends in polydrug overdose deaths across rural Midwest counties in the United States, 2022 through 2024Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2025
8. Immunohistochemically-confirmed mitochondrial cardiomyopathy presenting as a conduction system hamartoma: A case reportCardiovascular Pathology · 2025
9. Factors associated with psychiatric consultation history and methods of suicide in individuals who died by suicide in Osaka City: A retrospective studyPsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports · 2025
10. Regulatory SNP of TERT promoter accompanied by C228T and BRAFV600E is an exacerbating factor of papillary thyroid carcinomaOncology Letters · 2025
11. Role of regular medical visits in mitigating increased suicide risk during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Kobe, JapanBMC Primary Care · 2025
12. Sudden cardiac death associated with fatty liver diseaseIJC Heart & Vasculature · 2025
13. Usefulness of fat attenuation index in postmortem CT for identifying responsible vessels in acute coronary syndromes: A case reportRadiology Case Reports · 2024
14. Forensic analysis of suicide deaths: Comparing forensic information with public information and investigating factors contributing to psychiatric consultationsPsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports · 2024
15. The COVID-19 pandemic immediately increased the suicide rate in Kobe, Japan, especially among populations without psychiatry and primary care physician visits: Interrupted time-series analysis using a population-based database2024
16. Quantification of collagen fiber properties in alcoholic liver fibrosis using polarization-resolved second harmonic generation microscopyScientific Reports · 2023
17. ALT: Aggregate Liquidity Technology2023
18. The Scalpel Is PassedAmerican Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology · 2022
19. Comparison of lithium levels between suicide and non-suicide fatalities: Cross-sectional studyTranslational Psychiatry · 2022
20. Double suicide in Japan in the post-war reconstruction period, with reference to contemporary JapanMedicine Science and the Law · 2022