Postmortem ventilation: A new method for improved detection of pulmonary pathologies in forensic imaging

Legal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 223-228

  Germerott, Tanja ^a,b   Flach, Patricia M ^a,c,d   Preiss, Ulrich S ^a,b   Ross, Steffen G ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Postmortem CT; Postmortem imaging; Postmortem lung; Postmortem ventilation; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE SUPPORT VENTILATION; STOMACH DISTENSION;

AUTOPSY; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84862834900     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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