Authors
Sierra Abdullaj, DO
Department of Pathology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Theodore T. Brown, MD
Arkansas State Crime Laboratory
Department of Public Safety
Department of Pathology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Arkansas
Authors
Sierra Abdullaj, DO
Department of Pathology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Theodore T. Brown, MD
Arkansas State Crime Laboratory
Department of Public Safety
Department of Pathology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Arkansas
Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists
Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Laboratory Directors and Educators
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
· summarize the conditions needed to produce branchlike Lichtenberg patterns onto wood;
· emphasize important death scene investigation findings to document in possible fractal woodburning deaths;
· identify autopsy findings that support a death due to fractal woodburning;
· suggest additional ancillary studies that are useful and sometimes necessary in possible fractal woodburning deaths; and
· discuss the most common mechanism, cause, and manner of death in fractal woodburning deaths.