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Minerva Medicolegale 2002 June;122(2): 81-94

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language: Italian

Diagnosis of the cause of death (art. 116 disp. att. c.p.p.) in Legal Medicine Departments of the National Hospital system and judicial assessment

Messina R.

The author reviews the legislation, abrogated and current, regarding medicolegal examination in D.O.A., analysing it and highlighting in particular those doctrinal and practical aspects of greatest pertinence to the Forensic Medicine Departments of public hospital units. He also examines judicial assessment of the cause of death (art. 116 disp. att. c.p.p.) and proposes certain operating modalities on the part of forensic physicians within the hospital system in support of the work of the magistrature.