Lung-heart weight ratio as a possible index of cardiopulmonary pathophysiology in drowning

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Zhu, Bao Li ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Ishida, Kaori ^a,d   Oritani, Shigeki ^a   Li, Dong Ri ^a   Taniguchi, Mari ^a   Kamikodai, Yasunobu ^a   Tsuda, Kohei ^a   Fujita, Masaki Q ^a   Nishi, Katsuji ^b   Tsuji, Tsutomu ^c   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

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

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drowning; Forensic pathology; Freshwater; Lung weight; Lung heart weight ratio; Saltwater

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ASPHYXIA; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DROWNING; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; LUNG WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION;

EID: 0038415932     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00154-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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