One small scan for radiology, one giant leap for forensic medicine - Post-mortem imaging replaces forensic autopsy in a case of traumatic aortic laceration

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-43

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Fischer, Nadja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forensic medicine; Minimally invasive autopsy; Post mortem CT; Post mortem MRI; Trauma; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; LACERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650305874     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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