Edema is a sign of early acute myocardial infarction on post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 501-505

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a,b,c   Ebert, Lars C ^a,c   Khattab, Ahmed A ^b   Rieben, Robert ^c   Thali, Michael J ^a   Kamat, Pranitha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Animal model; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Post mortem magnetic resonance; Radio morphologic correlation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; HEART EDEMA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; EDEMA, CARDIAC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886747332     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-013-9459-x     Document Type: Article

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