Virtopsy postmortem imaging of laryngeal foreign bodies

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 806-810

  Oesterhelweg, Lars ^a,b   Bolliger, Stephan A ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ross, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Environment and Customer Protection   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65649117312     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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