Postmortem computed tomography images of a broken piece of a weapon in the skull

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-170

  Kawasumi, Yusuke ^a   Hosokai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Usui, Akihito ^a   Saito, Haruo ^a   Ishibashi, Tadashi ^a   Funayama, Masato ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreign bodies; Forensics; Postmortem CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; FOREIGN BODY; HEMATOTHORAX; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; STAB WOUND; WEAPON; AGED; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 84861819574     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-011-0018-7     Document Type: Article

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