Pulmonary thrombembolism as cause of death on unenhanced postmortem 3T MRI

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1266-1270

  Jackowski, Christian ^a   Grabherr, Silke ^b   Schwendener, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forensic imaging; Natural death; Postmortem imaging; Postmortem magnetic resonance imaging; Pulmonary thrombembolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY;

AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 84877156740     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2728-3     Document Type: Article

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