Non-traumatic rupture of the intracranial vertebral artery of a man found dead in a severe car accident - Histopathological differentiation by step-serial sections

Legal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-106

  Ro, Ayako ^a,b   Kageyama, Norimasa ^b   Hayashi, Kino ^b   Shigeta, Akio ^b   Fukunaga, Tatsushige ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Dissection of cerebral artery; Forensic pathology; Intracranial vertebral artery; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Traffic accident

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY LESION; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CAR DRIVING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL VERTEBRAL ARTERY RUPTURE; LEG; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SHOULDER PAIN; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 37749007380     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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