"Buckle" rib fracture: An artifact following cardio-pulmonary resuscitation detected on postmortem CT

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 233-239

  Yang, Kyung moo ^a,b   Lynch, Matthew ^b   O'Donnell, Chris ^b  

^a National Forensic Service   (South Korea)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artifact; Buckle rib fracture; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Computed tomography; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOPSY; BUCKLE RIB FRACTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; RESUSCITATION; RIB FRACTURE; STERNUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIB FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052164766     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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