Cyril H Wecht
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Omalu B, Macurdy K, Koehler S, Nnebe-Agumadu U, Shakir A, Rozin L, et al.
Forensic Sci Med Pathol
. 2015 Apr;
1(2):125-37.
PMID: 25869950
Suicide has assumed epidemic proportions and constitutes a major public health issue throughout the United States. Suicide remains one of the top eight leading causes of death, accounting for approximately...
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Omalu B, Nnebe-Agumadu U, Shakir A, Rozin L, Wecht C
Forensic Sci Med Pathol
. 2015 Apr;
1(2):105-12.
PMID: 25869948
In the 1970s, J. H. Adams and other researchers at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland introduced a grading system for the quantification and analysis of contusions of the...
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Gionis T, Wecht C, Marshall Jr L, Hagigi F
Am J Disaster Med
. 2008 May;
2(4):173-88.
PMID: 18488831
While the mission of public health is to fulfill society's interest in ensuring a healthy society as "public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the...
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Nursing home deaths which fall under the jurisdiction of the coroner: an 11-year retrospective study
Lindner J, Omalu B, Buhari A, Shakir A, Rozin L, Wecht C
Am J Forensic Med Pathol
. 2007 Nov;
28(4):292-8.
PMID: 18043014
Twenty percent of deaths in the United States occur in nursing homes, yet less than 1% come to autopsy. The current study analyzed causes and manners of death in all...
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Omalu B, Ives D, Buhari A, Lindner J, Schauer P, Wecht C, et al.
Arch Surg
. 2007 Oct;
142(10):923-8.
PMID: 17938303
Background: Bariatric surgery has emerged as the most effective treatment for class III obesity (body mass index, >or=40). The number of operations continues to increase. We measured case fatality and...
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Koehler S, Shakir A, Omalu B, Wecht C
J Forensic Nurs
. 2007 Jan;
2(4):199-202, 204.
PMID: 17228512
A study of elderly homicide victims brought to a Pennsylvania medical examiner's office reveals interesting findings about cause of death.
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Sowell M, Lovelady C, Brogdon B, Wecht C
J Forensic Sci
. 2007 Jan;
52(1):183-8.
PMID: 17209934
An otherwise healthy male infant was brought to the hospital because the mother suspected superficial infection at the operative site 5 days after an inguinal hernia repair. He was admitted...
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Omalu B, DeKosky S, Hamilton R, Minster R, Kamboh M, Shakir A, et al.
Neurosurgery
. 2006 Dec;
59(5):1086-92.
PMID: 17143242
Objective: We present the second reported case of autopsy-confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a retired professional football player, with neuropathological features that differ from those of the first reported case....
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Burgess A, Burgess A, Koehler S, Dominick J, Wecht C
J Forensic Nurs
. 2006 Nov;
1(4):151-7.
PMID: 17073116
Homicide is a topic of interest not only because of its severity but because it is a fairly reliable barometer of all violent crime, especially as it affects women. This...
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Omalu B, Cho P, Shakir A, Agumadu U, Rozin L, Kuller L, et al.
Surg Obes Relat Dis
. 2006 Aug;
1(4):447-9.
PMID: 16925267
The proportion of the United States population living with bariatric surgery has increased exponentially since the mid 1990s. It is pertinent to study and understand the mortality patterns of this...