Unexpected sudden death resulting from anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left sinus of Valsalva: A case report involving identical twins

Legal Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-29

  Iino, Morio ^a   Kimura, Takeshi ^a   Abiru, Hitoshi ^a   Kaszynski, Richard H ^a   Yuan, Qing Hua ^a   Tsuruyama, Tatsuaki ^a   Tamaki, Keiji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities; Coronary artery anomalies; Identical twins; MDCT; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MALE; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33845389017     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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