this is a post mortem phenomenon - happens when the epidermis is abraded after death - the layer below dries and takes on the appearance of parchment

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give a yellow parchmented appearance. This putrefactive "skin-slip" superficially. resembles ante-mortem abrasions and scalds. Indeed, post mortem scalding ...
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Assessment of age of abrasions is difficult. Post-mortem drying of abraded surface causes a. golden yellow or reddish, leathery, parchmented appearance. ...
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POST-MORTEM REPORTThe mark was largely parchmented and continued around the back of the neck ... site nor elsewhere on the neck, suggesting that this was a postmortem injury. ...
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conditions permit, to give a yellow parchmented appearance. ... Concentration for the Prediction of the Postmortem Interval, Journal of Forensic Sciences ...
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Dunblane unburied Forums: Who Killed Thomas Hamilton?A post mortem parchmented yellow-based abrasion, measuring 3mm x 5mm was seen in the region of the left hip, 130mm below the anterior superior iliac spine ...
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