Craniocerebral trauma inflicted by television falls

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1049-1053

  Deisch, Jeremy ^a   Quinton, Reade ^b   Gruszecki, Amy C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Southwest Institute of Forensic Science Dallas   (United States)

^c American Forensics   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Autopsy; Craniocerebral trauma; Forensic science; Inflicted trauma; Manner of death; Television; Tipover

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD INJURY; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SKULL; TELEVISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MALE; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; SKULL; TELEVISION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960044462     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01765.x     Document Type: Article

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