Assessment of post-mortem interval through the study of the insect succession in two corpses found indoors in a country house in Madrid;Determinación del intervalo postmortem mediante el estudio de la sucesión de insectos en dos cadáveres hallados en el interior de una finca rústica en Madrid

Cuadernos de Medicina Forense

Volumn , Issue 56, 2009, Pages 137-145

  Garcia Rojo A M ^a   Honorato, L ^a   Gonzalez M ^a   Tellez A ^a  

^a Laboratorio de ADN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forensic Entomology; Insect succession; Madrid; Postmortem interval; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350095832     PISSN: 11357606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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