Angelina Phillips

Medical University of South Carolina | MUSC · Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (College of Medicine)

Deaths occurring in police custody have dominated public discourse over recent years. However, deaths occurring after law enforcement have initiated nonphysical contact but before active restraint or containment lie outside the strict definition of “in custody.” These “antecustodial” deaths demonstrate a unique population and interaction with law e...

Introduction Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), also known as black esophagus and acute necrotizing esophagitis, is a rare pathologic finding of unknown etiology. It was first characterized as diffuse, circumferential black discoloration of the esophageal mucosa that affects predominantly the distal esophagus with sharp transition to normal-appearing...

Misoprostol is a prostaglandin analog commonly used to induce termination of pregnancy. Clandestine home terminations complicate forensic fetal autopsy when a history of misoprostol use is withheld and the gross and histologic findings are sparse, as is often the case. One hundred thirty-two placentas with no vaginal misoprostol use, low-dose misop...

Glycogen storage disease type IV (GSD IV; Andersen's disease) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that results from defects in the GBE1 gene (3p12.2) and subsequent deficiencies of glycogen branching. We report a case of GSD IV diagnosed at autopsy in a 35 4/7 weeks gestational age female neonate that died shortly after birth. Multisystem blue,...

Acute intravascular hemolysis is a rare and often lethal complication of Clostridium perfringens septicemia.Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic, gram-positive spore-forming rod which is commonly implicated in cases of food poisoning, gas gangrene, and severe hemolytic anemia in humans via the alpha-toxin (phospholipase C). We report an interest...