Forensic Radiology has become irreplaceable in modern forensic case work, being useful in identifying fatal pathology and planning the approach to a complex autopsy examination. Especially during triage, many forensic pathologists have a quick heuristic to look at the common causes of death (including brain, spinal cord and trunk), sometimes overlooking other interesting and useful findings in organs that don’t typically cause death. In this poster, we will be showing post-mortem computed tomography (CT) images of different types of pathology in the eyes from our casework, including surgical, traumatic and degenerative changes, as well as post-mortem artefacts. Recognition of these changes may assist in the interpretation of other radiological or autopsy findings.
Burger et al. (Sun,) studied this question.