Aircraft mishap investigation with radiology-assisted autopsy: Helicopter crash with control injury

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 400-404

  Folio, Les R ^b   Harcke, H Theodore ^a   Luzi, Scott A ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft mishapinvestigation.; Control injury; Helicopter mishap; Radiology assisted autopsy; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; FACE FRACTURE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; LEG FRACTURE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS FRACTURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL FRACTURE; THORAX INJURY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AUTOPSY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 63849198603     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2445.2009     Document Type: Article

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