Comment on: "Bone marrow embolism: should it result from traumatic bone lesions? a histopathological human autopsy study"

Søren Reinhold Jakobsen; Lene Warner Thorup Boel

doi:10.1007/s12024-023-00676-5

Comment on: "Bone marrow embolism: should it result from traumatic bone lesions? a histopathological human autopsy study"

Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2024 Sep;20(3):1108. doi: 10.1007/s12024-023-00676-5. Epub 2023 Jul 17.

Authors

Søren Reinhold Jakobsen¹, Lene Warner Thorup Boel²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, Aarhus, N 8200, Denmark. [email protected].
² Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, Aarhus, N 8200, Denmark.

PMID: 37460769
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-023-00676-5

Abstract

Farid et al., described how 8 of 11 cases of Bone Marrow Embolism were found to be non-traumatic. In our research group we found several shortcomings in the methodology, and within our own Institute we could not replicate the results.

Keywords: Bone marrow embolism; Postmortem CT-scan; Trauma.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Autopsy*
Bone Marrow* / pathology
Embolism / pathology
Forensic Pathology
Humans