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  • Secondary missile injury from lightning strike 
    Blumenthal, Ryan (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012-03)
    A 48 year-old-female was struck dead by lightning on the 24th October 2010 in Pretoria South Africa. The cause of death was due to direct lightning strike. Examination showed secondary missile injury on her legs. This ...
  • Self-inflicted explosive death by intra-oral detonation of a firecracker : a case report 
    Makhoba, Aubrey Musa; Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine (Springer, 2017-12)
    Self-inflicted explosive deaths due to detonation of fireworks are rare. In this case report, a peculiar case of an elderly male who discharged a firecracker inside his mouth, resulting in fatal blast induced craniofacial ...
  • Sharp force fatalities at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory, 2012-2013 
    Mitton, L.; Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-06)
    BACKGROUND : South Africa’s crude death rate was recorded as the highest in the world in 2014. In 2013, 47 murders occurred daily nationwide, and it was confirmed that sharp force fatalities were frequent events. The aim ...
  • A simple mathematical model for Ebola in Africa 
    Tsanou, Berge; Lubuma, Jean M.-S.; Moremedi, G.M.; Morris, Neil Kenneth; Kondera-Shava, R. (Taylor and Francis, 2017)
    We deal with the following question: Can the consumption of contaminated bush meat, the funeral practices and the environmental contamination explain the recurrence and persistence of Ebola virus disease outbreaks in Africa? ...
  • Sudden and unexpected childhood deaths investigated at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory, South Africa, 2007-2011 
    Van Deventer, Barbara Stroh; Rossouw, Servaas Hofmeyr; Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-10)
    BACKGROUND. Sudden and unexpected death is well known to occur in infants, and although sudden deaths are less frequent after the first birthday, they still account for a significant proportion of childhood deaths. In ...
  • Sudden death in an adolescent due to primary angiosarcoma of the right atrium 
    Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Van Niekerk, Egbert C.A.; Cronje, Christien M.; Dinkel, Jurgen Erich (Springer, 2016-09)
    A 16 year old male adolescent of African ethnicity presented to a health care facility with a long standing history of chronic coughing. The treating medical practitioner requested a chest X-ray which revealed a large ...
  • Suicide in Pretoria : a retrospective review, 2007 - 2010 
    Engelbrecht, C.; Blumenthal, Ryan; Morris, Neil Kenneth; Saayman, Gert (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-08)
    BACKGROUND : The World Health Organization has declared suicide a global health crisis, predicting that ~1.53 million people will commit suicide annually by 2020. OBJECTIVE : A study from South Africa reviewed 1 018 ...
  • Tandem bullet injury : an unusual variant of an unusual injury 
    Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Morris, Neil Kenneth; Saayman, Gert (Springer, 2014-06)
    A 41-year old male sustained a fatal gunshot wound during a house robbery. Police enquiries and scene investigation revealed that a single shot had been fired and that one spent 9 mm cartridge case was retrieved from the scene.
  • Thermal fatalities in Pretoria : a 5-year retrospective review 
    Morobadi, Kenalemang; Blumenthal, Ryan; Saayman, Gert (Elsevier, 2019-11)
    In South Africa, research on burn mortality has emanated primarily from specialised burn centres and has focused on specific age groups and hospital-based fatalities. This study describes the demographic profile and the ...
  • Tongue position and its relation to the cause of death and sequential stages of body decomposition observed during 608 forensic post-mortems 
    Bernitz, Herman; Van Staden, Paul Jacobus; Rossouw, Servaas Hofmeyr; Jordaan, J.C. (Joyce) (Springer, 2019-07)
    The purpose of this study was to document tongue position and its relation to the cause of death and sequential stages of body decomposition, as observed during the routine forensic pathological examination of bodies. The ...
  • Toward a standardized investigation protocol in sudden unexpected deaths in infancy in South Africa : a multicenter study of medico-legal investigation procedures and outcomes 
    Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Dempers, Johan J.; Verster, Janette; Hattingh, Christa; Nel, Hestelle; Brandt, V.D; Jordaan, J.C. (Joyce); Saayman, Gert (Springer, 2013)
    INTRODUCTION : South Africa manifests a socio-economic dichotomy that shows features of both a developed and developing country. As a result of this, areas exist where the lack of resources and expertise prevents the ...
  • When thunder roars - go indoors! 
    Blumenthal, Ryan (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2006-01)
    Lightning is a serious danger, and constitutes one of our country’s deadliest weather phenomena. A review of the southern African medical literature shows a paucity of published data on lightning fatalities, with most ...