Fatal lower extremity varicose vein rupture

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-90

  Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Preiss, Ulrich ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^a   Zech, Wolf Dieter ^a   Ketterer, Thomas ^a   Bolliger, Stephan ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fatal hemorrhage; Post mortem CT angiography; Post mortem MRI; Varicose veins; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HUMAN; LEG VARICOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUDDEN DEATH; VEIN RUPTURE;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; DEATH, SUDDEN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 79251640075     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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