Fig. 17
From: Burned bodies: post-mortem computed tomography, an essential tool for modern forensic medicine
a, b A 40-year-old man who died by carbon monoxide poisoning in a home fire. Note the ground-glass opacities of pulmonary oedema, better visualised on the coronal reconstructions. These lesions are diffuse, reaching the whole pulmonary lobes, and different from livor mortis pulmonary lesions due to hypostasis. c A 32-year-old man who was shot dead in the head and burned afterwards. Ground-glasses opacities in the posterior and dependent portions of lungs (asterisk), against the left oblique fissure (white arrow), the right oblique fissure (black arrow) and the horizontal fissure (black dashed arrow) corresponding to characteristic livor mortis lesions not to be confused with heat or asphyxia lesions