Virtual autopsy: Two- and three-dimensional multidetector CT findings in drowning with autopsy comparison

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 862-868

  Levy, Angela D ^a,c   Harcke, H Theodore ^a,c   Getz, John M ^a   Mallak, Craig T ^a   Caruso, James L ^a   Pearse, Lisa ^a   Frazier, Aletta A ^a,b   Galvin, Jeffrey R ^a,b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOPSY; BODY FLUID; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG STRUCTURE; MALE; MASTOID; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH DISTENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL AUTOPSY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DROWNING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34249077020     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2433061009     Document Type: Article

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