Molecular autopsy of sudden cardiac death: From postmortem to clinical approach;L'autopsie moléculaire de la mort subite cardiaque: De la salle d'autopsie au cabinet du praticien

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 4, Issue 164, 2008, Pages 1590-1593

  Michaud, Katarzyna ^a   Lesta, Maria Del Mar ^a   Mangin, Patrice ^b   Fellmann, Florence ^c  

^a Unité de Médecine Forensique   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SHORT SURVEY; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MYOCARDIUM; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 47549108749     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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