Massive internal injury in the absence of significant external injury after collisions of passenger vehicles with much larger vehicles

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 219-222

  Carson, Henry J ^a   Cook, Benjamin A ^b  

^a Weland Clinical Laboratories   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Collision; Semi trailer; Train; Truck

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLADDER RUPTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FATALITY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD INJURY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJURY SEVERITY; LACERATION; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIS INJURY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RAILWAY; RIB FRACTURE; SKIN ABRASION; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; RAILROADS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 41949126921     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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