The Value of the Autopsy in Three Medical Eras

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 308, Issue 17, 1983, Pages 1000-1005

  Goldman, Lee ^a   Sayson, Robert ^a   Robbins, Stanley ^a   Cohn, Lawrence H ^a   Bettmann, Michael ^a   Weisberg, Monica ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0020570187     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198304283081704     Document Type: Article

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