Management of dead and missing: Aftermath tsunami in Galle

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Rohan, Ruwanpura P ^a   Hettiarachchi, Mahinda ^a   Vidanapathirana, Muditha ^b   Perera, Shelton ^a  

^a Teaching Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Dead and missing; Disaster management; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISASTER; DISASTER MEDICINE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SRI LANKA; STORAGE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TSUNAMI;

AGED; CHILD; CRIME; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DISASTERS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; RAILROADS; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67349185879     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.052     Document Type: Article

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