Nevzat Alkan

• Professor (Full) at Istanbul University

Exposição à violência doméstica em mulheres que vivem em Istambul e nas regiões do Egeu: uma amostra turca Resumo A violência doméstica (VD) é um grave problema de saúde pública no mundo. VD contra as mulheres também é um problema global sem fronteiras culturais, geográficas, religiosas, sociais, econômicas ou nacionais. Este estudo descritivo tran...

Giriş ve Amaç: Çocuğa yönelik cinsel istismar olgularının değerlendirilmesinde; aile ve çocuğun travmatize edilmeden bir defada çok yönlü değerlendirilmesi, adli olgu bildirimi yapılması, koruma, sağlık, eğitim vb. tedbirler alınarak müdahale edilmesi gerekmektedir. Ayırt edici tanı koymak bu sürecin en önemli kısmıdır. Çalışmada bu tür olgularda a...

Domestic violence (DV) is a serious public health problem in the world. DV against women is also a global problem without cultural, geographic, religious, social, economic or national boundaries. This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the situations of DV in women living in Istanbul and the Aegean Region in Turkey. The...

Handwriting and signature comparisons are frequently performed in forensic investigations of documents. Mistakes in conclusion might be due to lack of sufficient documentation and information. Many factors can affect handwriting and signature. These factors are divided into two groups: dependent or independent of the individual at the time the hand...

Objective: The gluteal region is usually the preferred site for intramuscular injections. However, reported complications include pain, abscess formation, hematoma formation and peripheral nerve injury, most frequently sciatic nerve injury. Here, we aimed to analyze the demographical, clinical and electrophysiological features of patients with scia...

The study included 411 deaths selected from 14,647 medicolegal deaths autopsied in the Morgue Department of Forensic Medicine Institute Directorate, affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, between 1998 and 2002. Data were collected from court documents, coroner's investigation reports, and autopsy reports. The parameters of age, gender, nationalit...

Amaç: Bu çalışma İstanbul'daki yoğun bakım ünitelerinde çalışan hemşirelerin çalıştıkları birim-lerdeki hekim-hemşire iletişimi ile ilgili görüşlerini belirlemek amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak yapılmıştır. Çalışma planı: Tanımlayıcı nitelikteki çalışma-mızda İstanbul ili sınırları içindeki hastanelerinin reanimasyon, koroner, çocuk, cerrahi ve genel y...

There is an ongoing debate on the definition of euthanasia and attempts to change laws about euthanasia and its practice in many countries. It is the medical doctors and the other health professionals who will elucidate the issue. Therefore, we performed this study to reveal attitude of Turkish health professionals toward euthanasia. This is an obs...

When a body is recovered from the water after a fatal SCUBA diving accident, it is useful to know if the diver was under pressure or not when he/she took his/her last breath, in order to determine the cause and manner of the death. If the victim was under pressure, the air remained in the lungs of the diver will be equal to the environmental pressu...

Women in Turkey are subjected to gynecologic examinations not only for legal reasons, such as sexual assault or violence against pregnant women, but also for various social reasons, such as suspicions of premarital intercourse, prostitution, loss of virginity, and pregnancy at the time of entering into a new marriage. The examinations are performed...

There are so many factors causing deficits in handwriting and signature. Some of thesefactors are the position of the patient, the surface and the instrument used in writing,handedness, the psychological situation, the side effects of drugs used, the use of alcohol,narcotics, stimulants and hypnotics, physical and psychological diseases and theage...

In some cases, determination of blood alcohol level is very important. The alcohol level at the time of an event, can affect the court decision and may lead to aggravate the penalty or on the contrary an acquittal. In this article, a criminal action, in one of Turkish High Criminal Court is examined. The case was about the death of a drunk person w...

Human being has been encountering huge natural mass disasters since the dawn of existence. In the earthquake both Marmara region on August 17 1999 and Duzce region on November 12 1999, according to official records, 18.287 people were dead and 46.857 were injured. The purpose of this study is to get information by bilateral interviews with those wh...

United States of America (USA) is a powerful country regarding economic, scientific, political and military areas in today's world. The outcome of these parameters is a good level of medical education system in USA. There are two medical education systems in USA: Allopathic Medical Education System and Osteopathic Medical Education System. Although...

Sexual dysfunctions are very frequent among man and woman. It has a very important role in maintaining a good family relationship. If this relationship breaks down, the couples may go to court to divorce, as they think their family relationship will not continue. Forensic medical specialists are accepted as an expert, for several occasions as well...

There are a lot of factors that influence handwriting and signatures. Among these factors can be listed some of them such as the position of the body, writing surface, writing instrument, emotional state, various drugs, alcohol, neuroleptic or stimulant drugs, physical and mental diseases and aging. Writer's cramp is a focal dystonia that holds upp...

Adli Dis Hekimligi’nin Kurucusu Oscar Amoedo 1863-1945 Dr. Oscar Amoedo, Kuba' nin Matanzas sehrinde, 10 Kasim 18Ğ3 tarihinde, orta halli bir ailenin, ortanca cocugu olarak dogdu. Havana Universitesi' ndeki egitimini takiben, New York Dis Hekimligi Fakultesi' ne kabul edildi. 1888 yilinda egitimini tamamladiginda, tekrar Kuba' ya dondu. 1889 yilind...

The possibility of manifest traumatic changes is rare for physical abuse during infancy. Cases are brought to emergency-intensive care units because of clinical findings observed in various diseases, which are unique to this age and which are mostly reported to come out immediately. In this study, a male and two female infants who were taken to the...

Forensic document examination is one of the most important fields of Forensic Sciences. Purpose of our study is to analyse how. with whom and with which agencies and principles of expert applications related with forensic document examinations are made in our country. With this purpose, it is discussed by examining law paragraphs including expertis...

Forensic document examination is a multidisipliner branch of work deals with the workout on the documents for research and investigation. It covers handwriting and signature comparisons, typewritten and print out documents, photocopies, preprinted document, fake notes, valuable documents, passport considerations, paper and ink analysis. Eventhough...

Alterations in handwriting is mostly seen in elder period. In this study, features of signature and handwriting are investigated in randomly sized groups composed of old and young subjects. For this reason, some parameters such as vertical lines, horizontal lines, left and right space, handwriting, writing speed, increase in space between letters,...

1- Cezaevleri, suç ifllemifl bireylerin özgürlüklerinin ellerinden al›nd›- ¤› ve çeflitli k›s›tlamalara maruz b›rak›ld›klar› ortamlard›r. Bu ortamlar›n en önemli özellii, mahkumun durumundan kamu otoritesinin sorumlu olmas›d›r. Durum böyle olunca da oluflan her ölüm olay›nda, kamu oto- ritesinden bunun sebebini net bir biçimde ortaya konmas› beklen...