Minimally invasive autopsy: An alternative to conventional autopsy?

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 897-904

  Weustink, Annick C ^a   Hunink, Myriam G M ^a,b   Van Dijke, Cornelis F ^a   Renken, Nomdo S ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Oosterhuis, J Wolter ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MINIMALLY INVASSIVE AUTOPSY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SPLEEN BIOPSY; WHOLE BODY CT;

AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62649101266     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2503080421     Document Type: Article

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