To image or to autopsy?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-159

  Burton, Elizabeth C ^a   Mossa Basha, Mahmud ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84855824360     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-2-201201170-00014     Document Type: Editorial

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