Gunshot fatalities: Correlation between post-mortem multi-slice computed tomography and autopsy findings: A 30-months retrospective study

Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 145-148

  Makhlouf, F ^a   Scolan, V ^a   Ferretti, G ^a   Stahl, C ^a   Paysant, F ^a  

^a HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Firing range; Gunshot wound; Postmortem CT scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BALLISTICS; BLEEDING; BRAIN CONTUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FACE FRACTURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AUTOPSY; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84876336573     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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