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• TITLE: Pulmonary Immunohistochemical Detection of Surfactant Protein A (SP-A) in Fatal Drowning

  AUTHORS: Enrico De Dominicis, Giuseppe Santeusanio, Filippo Milano, Luigi Tonino Marsella

  KEYWORDS: Drowning, Autopsy, Immunohistochemistry, Surfactant Protein A, Pathology

  JOURNAL NAME: Forensic Medicine and Anatomy Research, Vol.4 No.3, July 14, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Drowning still remains one of the most difficult diagnoses in forensic pathology because macroscopic and microscopic autopsy findings are unspecific. An ideal diagnostic marker for drowning still needs to be developed, but some authors have recently studied SP-A as a marker of asphyxiation and drowning. The aim of this study is to compare the histopathological features and the SP-A immunohistochemical expression in lung tissue in the case of drowning with those determined by other causes to discriminate between cadaver submersion and drowning.