Dilatation of the heart on postmortem computed tomography (PMCT): Comparison with live CT

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-35

  Shiotani, Seiji ^a   Kohno, Mototsugu ^a   Ohashi, Noriyoshi ^a   Yamazaki, Kentaro ^a   Nakayama, Hidetsugu ^a   Watanabe, Ko ^a   Itai, Yuji ^b  

^a TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Forensic radiology; Heart; Postmortem change

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0037234645     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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