Suicidal knife wound to the heart: Challenges in reconstructing wound channels with post mortem CT and CT-angiography

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-94

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a   Ketterer, Thomas ^a   Preiss, Ulrich ^a   Bolliger, Michael ^a   Ross, Steffen ^a,b   Gotsmy, Walther F ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Germerott, Tanja ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forensic radiology; Knife wounds; Post mortem CT; Post mortem CT angiography; Sharp injuries; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; SUICIDE; THORAX INJURY;

AUTOPSY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUICIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 79251616150     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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