Interpreting Bone Lesions and Pathology for Forensic Practice

By Lucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo

Interpreting Bone Lesions and Pathology for Forensic Practice presents a concise description of the necessary steps for the differential diagnosis of disease and trauma on skeletal remains. Information obtained from the pathological reactions of bone can be fundamental for forensic dilemmas, ranging from identification to understanding trauma. The book's authors aim to provide reliable tools for the appropriate interpretation of lesions on bone through macroscopic, radiological, histological and biomolecular analyses on skeletal remains.

• Provides tools for the proper interpretation of bone pathology and lesions
• Presents content that is based on modern and documented case studies
• Includes bone pathological reactions that are crucial for interpreting trauma

• Language: English
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Release date: Nov 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9780323853347

Lucie Biehler-Gomez

Lucie Biehler-Gomez, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in bioarch- aeology and forensic anthropology at the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology (LABANOF), University of Milan, Italy. She obtained her BSc at the Universite´ Lumie`re Lyon 2 (France) in 2014 finishing her degree with a year abroad at the University of California Davis, CA, United States, her MSc in 2016 at the Faculty of Medicine, Universite´ de Lorraine Nancy, France and in 2020 her PhD at the Universita` degli studi di Milano (Italy). Her research emphasis is on the recognition and diagnosis of bone disease, in particular based on the modern and documented CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection of LABANOF. She wrote several chapters, published over 15 research articles in international journals and is currently a Reviewer for the journal Forensic Science International. In 2020, she was awarded the L'Ore´al-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (Italian edition).

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Chapter 1

The Study of Bone Disease: Principles and Application to Forensics

Lucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo,    LABANOF, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Abstract

Bone pathology is one of the pillars of bioarcheological investigations and yet seems to be much less considered in forensic anthropology. This chapter aims to discuss this shortcoming by demonstrating the potential of bone pathology in the forensic practice (in particular for the biological profile and personal identification). To uphold forensic standards, bone disease diagnosis should be based on clinical data as well as modern osteological collections with clinical or autopsy-based diagnoses. In addition, the principles of bone disease are explained as well as methods for the description of bone lesions and an approach for bone disease differential diagnosis suitable to forensic standards is