Heart luxation and myocardium rupture in postmortem multislice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-88

  Aghayev, Emin ^a   Jackowski, Christian ^a   Thali, Michael J ^b   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Sonnenschein, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Sonnenhof Spital AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autopsy imaging; Forensic radiology; Heart trauma; Myocardium rupture; Postmortem; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INJURIES; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PERICARDIUM; RIB FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67650732241     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e318165c0d8     Document Type: Article

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