Abbreviated injury scale scoring in traffic fatalities: Comparison of computerized tomography and autopsy

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1413-1416

  Leth, Peter Mygind ^a   Ibsen, Marlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abbreviated Injury Scale; Autopsy; Computerized tomography; CT scanning; Forensic medicine; Postmortem imagining

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOPSY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953756417     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b251b8     Document Type: Article

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