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94 Z. Rechtsmedizin 1 (1985)

handle is hein.journals/injlegame94 and id is 1 raw text is: Zeitschrift fur Z Rechtsmed (1985) 94:1-8 Rechtsmedizin © Springer-Verlag 1985 Originalarbeiten / Original Works Die Verteilung der elastischen Korperchen (elastic globes) in der gesunden menschlichen Haut. Untersuchungen mit einem dichten Raster* ** R. Vock' und W. Blimel2* * 1 Institut fur Rechtsmedizin der Universitat Wurzburg, Versbacher Str. 3, D-8700 Wurzburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2 Institut fOr Rechtsmedizin der Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, UniversitatsstraBe 22, D-8520 Erlangen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland The Distribution of Elastic Globes in the Healthy Human Skin. Investigations Using a Dense Grid Summary. Since the turn of the century, there have been descriptions of corpuscular structures in the human skin. These are situated at the epidermal- corial junction zone. They can be visualized well with resorcinol-fuchsin staining according to Weigert. They may attain forensic significance in the topographic assignment of isolated skin fragments to certain body regions. The research results available so far, which are in some cases contradictory, were checked and the investigations were continued. A total of 584 skin punch samples were taken from the trunk and limbs of a 39-year-old male corpse. Of these, a total of 1752 paraffin serial sections (resorcinol-fuchsin staining) were prepared and investigated for the occurrence of elastic bodies. The investigation essentially showed that in almost all serial sec- tions, elastic bodies were found to have a frequency concentration at points on the limbs. It could not be established that there was a sharp separation of skin areas containing elastic globes and skin areas free of elastic globes. The distribution of elastic bodies is evidently subject to a pattern of its own, which does not display any interrelationships with that of the skin appendages (apocrine and eccrine sweat glands, sebaceous glands, and male body hair). Because the skin of the trunk and the limbs is relatively regularly inter- spersed with elastic globes, there can only be used in connection with other features (e.g. thickness of the epidermis, skin appendages) to assign isolated skin fragments to certain regions of the body. Key words: Skin, elastic globes - Elastic globes, distribution in the skin * Herrn Prof. Dr. W. Janssen zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet ** Auszugsweise vorgetragen auf der 63.Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Rechtsmedizin in GieBen, 12. bis 15. 9. 1984 *** Ausfiihrliche Darstellung in Dissertation Blmel W, Erlangen 1985 Sonderdruckanfragen an: Dr. R. Vock (Adresse siehe oben)

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