The authors will present a case of forensic identification in which a widow claimed for medical malpractice the physicians that had taken care of her husband, who was affected by a malignant lung disease, as she thought he had been wrongly diagnosed with cancer and therefore had undergone massive and inappropriate therapies that finally led him to death. The Prosecutor ordered the seizure of the neoplastic histological samples attributed to the deceased and the comparison of the genetic profile obtained from these samples with those of the relatives, in order to establish the presence or absence of genetic compatibility among the neoplastic tissue and the relatives of the deceased. This presentation shows that the results of forensic identification performed on tumor tissue could be affected by the intrinsic genetic instability of cancer cells.
Analisi di eteroplasmie mediante DHPLC in un caso di identificazione personale
VERGINELLI, Fabio;
2009-01-01
Abstract
The authors will present a case of forensic identification in which a widow claimed for medical malpractice the physicians that had taken care of her husband, who was affected by a malignant lung disease, as she thought he had been wrongly diagnosed with cancer and therefore had undergone massive and inappropriate therapies that finally led him to death. The Prosecutor ordered the seizure of the neoplastic histological samples attributed to the deceased and the comparison of the genetic profile obtained from these samples with those of the relatives, in order to establish the presence or absence of genetic compatibility among the neoplastic tissue and the relatives of the deceased. This presentation shows that the results of forensic identification performed on tumor tissue could be affected by the intrinsic genetic instability of cancer cells.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
