The effectiveness of postmortem multidetector computed tomography in the detection of fatal findings related to cause of non-traumatic death in the emergency department

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 152-160

  Takahashi, Naoya ^a   Higuchi, Takeshi ^a   Shiotani, Motoi ^a   Hirose, Yasuo ^a   Shibuya, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamanouchi, Haruo ^b   Hashidate, Hideki ^a   Funayama, Kazuhisa ^b  

^a NIIGATA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Forensic imaging; Postmortem CT; Postmortem imaging; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC HEMORRHAGE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; INJURY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTRATHORACIC HEMORRHAGE; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG ARTERY DILATATION; LUNG CONGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART ARREST; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857053247     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2248-6     Document Type: Article

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