Homicide by heart attack?

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  De Giorgio, Fabio ^a   Arena, Vincenzo ^a   Arena, Elisa ^a   Lodise, Maria ^a   Vetrugno, Giuseppe ^a   Capelli, Arnaldo ^a   Pascali, Vincenzo L ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forensic autopsy; Heart attack; Homicide; Myocardial infarction; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FACE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PHYSICAL STRESS;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART ARREST; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 67349231326     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.060     Document Type: Article

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