Forensic scientist's implication regarding medical autopsies: Experience in a French university hospital (CHU Toulouse);Implication des médecins légistes dans l'autopsie médicale : L'expérience toulousaine

Annales de Pathologie

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 87-92

  Capuani, Caroline ^a   Guilbeau Frugier, Céline ^a   Dedouit, Fabrice ^a   Rougé, Daniel ^a   Delisle, Marie Bernadette ^a   Telmon, Norbert ^a  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Forensic scientist; Macroscopy; Medical autopsy; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84876340960     PISSN: 02426498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annpat.2013.02.009     Document Type: Article

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