Surgical interventions with fatal outcome: Utility of multi-phase postmortem CT angiography

Forensic Science International

Volumn 225, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 32-41

  Zerlauth, J B ^a   Doenz, F ^a   Dominguez, A ^a,b   Palmiere, C ^a   Uske A ^a   Meuli, R ^a   Grabherr, S ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computed tomography; Fatal outcome; Forensic radiology; Malpractice; Medical error; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

ANGIOFIL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOASPIRATION OF BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERVICAL BLEEDING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MULTI PHASE POSTMORTEM WHOLE BODY CT ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLEEN ARTERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; WHOLE BODY CT;

EID: 84873705450     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.05.013     Document Type: Article

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