Pros and cons of post-mortem CT imaging on aspiration diagnosis

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-21

  Filograna, Laura ^a,b   Bolliger, Stephan A ^a   Ross, Steffen G ^a   Ruder, Thomas ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Computed tomography; Drowning; Forensic imaging; Forensic pathology

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CONTENT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

AUTOPSY; DROWNING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650304407     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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