Death by biscuit - Exhumation, post-mortem CT, and revision of the cause of death one year after interment

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 142-144

  Thali, Yannick A ^a   Bolliger, Stephan A ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Foreign body; Forensic medicine; Post mortem CT; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXHUMATION; FEMALE; FOOD; FOREIGN BODY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PATHOLOGIST; PHARYNX TUMOR; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RADIOLOGIST;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EXHUMATION; FEMALE; FOOD; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952736378     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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