Clinical autopsy: A useful tool in the emergency department of teaching hospitals;Autopsia clínica: Una herramienta más en el servicio de urgencias hospitalario

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 337-339

  Iglesias, María L ^a   Pedro Botet, Juan ^a,b   Pallás, Oriol ^a   López Casanovas, María J ^a   Hernández Leal, Esmeralda ^a   Alameda, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cause of death; Concordance; Diagnosis; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 6944248728     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13066028     Document Type: Article

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