1. Effects of ethnicity on skeletal maturation: consequences for forensic age estimations

   • A. Schmeling
   • W. Reisinger
   • G. Geserick

   Review article Pages: 253 - 258

2. Suicides by sharp force: typical and atypical features

   • B. Karger
   • J. Niemeyer
   • B. Brinkmann

   Original article Pages: 259 - 262

3. Genetic variability at nine STR loci in the Chueta (Majorcan Jews) and the Balearic populations investigated by a single multiplex reaction

   • C. Tomàs
   • A. Picornell
   • A. Carracedo

   Original article Pages: 263 - 267

4. Immunohistochemical investigation of a pulmonary surfactant in fatal mechanical asphyxia

   • B. -L. Zhu
   • K. Ishida
   • H. Maeda

   Original article Pages: 268 - 271

5. Analysis of eight STR loci in two Hungarian populations

   • B. Egyed
   • S. Füredi
   • Z. Pádár

   Original article Pages: 272 - 275

6. Myocardial findings in fatal carbon monoxide poisoning: a human and experimental morphometric study

   • V. Fineschi
   • E. Agricola
   • E. Turillazzi

   Original article Pages: 276 - 282

7. Pressure sores: epidemiology, medico-legal implications and forensic argumentation concerning causality

   • M. Tsokos
   • A. Heinemann
   • K. Püschel

   Original article Pages: 283 - 287

8. The time course of the vascular response to human brain injury – an immunohistochemical study

   • R. Hausmann
   • P. Betz

   Original article Pages: 288 - 292

9. ROC analysis of alcoholism markers – 100% specificity

   • B. Brinkmann
   • H. Köhler
   • A. Heinecke

   Original article Pages: 293 - 299

10. Polymarker, HLA-DQA1 and D1S80 allele data in a Zimbabwean Black sample population

    • R. Wolfarth
    • L. T. Nhari
    • E. Masuka

    Short communication Pages: 300 - 301