A sudden death due to cardiac conduction system injury from a blunt chest impact

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 266-269

  Zhu, Bao Li ^a   Fujita, Masaki Q ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Ishida, Kaori ^a   Oritani, Shigeki ^a   Fukita, Kazunori ^a   Kamikodai, Yasunobu ^a,b   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kamikodai Surgical Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac conduction system; Cardiac contusion; Forensic pathology; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART CONTUSION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0033506778     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80049-2     Document Type: Article

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