Virtopsy hemorrhage of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle by blunt force to the neck in postmortem multislice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-29

  Aghayev, Emin ^a   Jackowski, Christian ^a   Sonnenschein, Martin ^b   Thali, Michael ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cricoarytenoid muscle; Forensic radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MUSCLE BLEEDING; NECK MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; ASPHYXIA; BLEEDING; CARTILAGE FRACTURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY; LARYNX; LARYNX CARTILAGE; METHODOLOGY; NECK INJURY; PATHOLOGY;

ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, CARTILAGE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LARYNGEAL CARTILAGES; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK INJURIES; NECK MUSCLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746057916     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.paf.0000201105.07267.fe     Document Type: Article

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