Medicolegal investigation of death in custody: A postmortem procedure for detection of blunt force injuries

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 312-314

  Hiss, Jehuda ^a   Kahana, Tzipi ^a,b  

^a L Greenberg Inst of Forensic Med   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contusions; Death in custody; X shaped postmortem incision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTUSIONS; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DEATH; ELASTICITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; SKIN; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0029806004     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199612000-00007     Document Type: Article

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