High risk medicolegal autopsies: Is a full postmortem examination necessary?

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Fryer, Eve Patricia ^a   Traill, Zoe C ^b   Benamore, Rachel E ^b   Roberts, Ian S D ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMITRIPTYLINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIAZEPAM; DRUG METABOLITE; FENTANYL; HOMOCOCAINE; KETAMINE; KETONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NITRAZEPAM; OLANZAPINE; OPIATE; PROPRANOLOL; TEMAZEPAM; TRAMADOL;

ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATHOLOGIST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUICIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871919909     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2012-201137     Document Type: Article

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