To see or not to see - Ambiguous findings on post-mortem cross-sectional imaging in a case of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 256-259

  Kluschke, Franziska ^a   Ross, Steffen ^a   Flach, Patricia M ^a,b   Schweitzer, Wolf ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Gascho, Dominic ^a   Vonlanthen, Bruno ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Forensic radiology; Post mortem CT; Post mortem CT angiography; Post mortem MR; Ruptured aortic aneurysm; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

IMAGOPAQUE 300; IOPENTOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AORTIC DISSECTION; FORENSIC RADIOLOGY; POST-MORTEM CT; POST-MORTEM CT-ANGIOGRAPHY; POST-MORTEM MR; RUPTURED AORTIC ANEURYSM; VIRTOPSY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AUTOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881546195     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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