What is the origin of intravascular gas on postmortem computed tomography?

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Yokota, Hajime ^a   Yamamoto, Seiji ^a   Horikoshi, Takuro ^a   Shimofusa, Ryota ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intravascular gas; Postmortem computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD GAS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; BRAIN ARTERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEART; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; VEIN; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WHOLE BODY CT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GASES; HEART; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349112871     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.051     Document Type: Article

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