[Detection of azaleptine in forensic chemical examination of cadaveric material].

Azaleptine detection and quantitation in cadaveric material in forensic-chemical tests using thin-layer chromatography, UV-spectrophotometry, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry are outlined.

[The detection of the traces of old damages to the bones of the cranial vault of the Emperor Nikolai II]. / Opredelenie sledov starykh povrezhdenii kostei svoda cherepa Imperatora Nikolaia II.

Relevant reports are reviewed, primary medical files analyzed, and the skull of Nicholas II is investigated using roentgenography and computer-aided tomography with the aim of forensic medical diagnosis of traces of an old injury to skull vault bones. The Emperor had a superficial fracture of the skull vault bones. No periosteal callus is formed in the course of healing of such an injury, and the trace of the fracture is not seen beyond the contour of compact plate of the skull vault. The external compact plate at the site of injury was lost after long stay of the skull is soil at the place of burial, and therefore traces of a former injury could not be detected.

[The participation of Yekaterinburg forensic medical experts in the expert assessment of the remains from a burial site near the village of Koptiaki]. / Uchastie sudebno-meditsinskikh ékspertov Ekaterinburga v ékspertize ostankov iz zakhoroneniia bliz derevni Koptiaki.

Enumerates grounds for experts evaluation carried out by Bureau of Forensic Medical Expert Evaluation of the Ministry of Health of Russia and Sverdlovsk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Expert Evaluation, lists the expert team members, and enumerates the methods of preparing the objects of expert evaluation (bone remains). Presents the results of assessing the date of burial, enumerates signs of exposure to thermal and chemical factors on the bones, and notes a callus on one skull.