Autopsies: The past to the future;Les autopsies: Du passe vers le futur

Revue Medicale de la Suisse Romande

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 763-767

  Sando, Zacharie ^a   Borisch, Bettina ^b   Bosman, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b HUG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HISTORY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; SHORT SURVEY;

AUTOPSY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 0032759143     PISSN: 00353655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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