Postmortem lung weight with regard to survival time

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Jian Hua ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,b   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Forensic pathology; Postmortem lung weight; Survival time; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIRE; HEAD INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTOXICATION; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PULMONARY EDEMA; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67349273692     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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