Autopsy cases of sudden unexpected infant deaths examined at the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, 1964-1993

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-37

  Funayama, Masato ^a   Tokudome, Shogo ^b   Matsuo, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sudden infant death; Sudden infant death syndrome; Tokyo Medical examiner cases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASPIRATION; AUTOPSY; BODY POSITION; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TOKYO;

EID: 0030019757     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199603000-00005     Document Type: Article

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