Forensic pathological evaluation of injury severity and fatal outcome in traffic accidents: Five illustrative autopsy cases of clinically unexpected death

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-158

  Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,b   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Injury severity; Preventable trauma death; Traffic accident; Traumatology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; MATHEMATICS; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERITONITIS; RETROPERITONEUM; RUPTURE; SURVIVAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEMATOMA; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MATHEMATICS; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RUPTURE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 56749160345     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-007-9025-5     Document Type: Article

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