caa a22 4500 475788125 CHVBK 20180406123704.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00007713 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00007713 Schäfer A.Th Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Pauwelsstraße, D-52057 Aachen, Germany Tel. +49-241-8089047; Fax +49-241-8089040, DE aut Colour measurements of pallor mortis [Elektronische Daten] [A.Th. Schäfer] Abstract : Little interest has yet been focused on the development of postmortem paleness (pallor mortis). Using an opto-electronical colour measurement device, we examined pallor mortis in 126 bodies and compared these findings to the average skin colour of 72 living Caucasian volunteers. It was shown that (a) hairy skin influences the results and any hair must be removed by shaving before colour determination, (b) among the living, there is a skin colour difference between the sexes which disappears after death, (c) postmortem paleness is caused by lack of capillary circulation after death and (d) paleness develops so rapidly after death that it has no or little use in determining time of death. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Colour measurement nationallicence Skin colour, human nationallicence Pallor mortis nationallicence Time of death nationallicence https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00007713 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00007713 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schäfer A.Th Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Pauwelsstraße, D-52057 Aachen, Germany Tel. +49-241-8089047; Fax +49-241-8089040, DE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer