Detection of coronary thrombosis after multi-phase postmortem CT-angiography

Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-18

  Palmiere, Cristian ^a   Lobrinus, Johannes Alexander ^b   Mangin, Patrice ^a   Grabherr, Silke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coronary thrombosis; Forensic pathology; Forensic radiology; Postmortem angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOFIL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870988546     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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