Postmortem imaging of sudden cardiac death

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 127-137

  Michaud, Katarzyna ^a   Grabherr, Silke ^a   Jackowski, Christian ^b   Bollmann, Marc Daniel ^a   Doenz, Franceso ^c   Mangin, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac postmortem MRI (cardiac PMMR); Postmortem CT angiography (PMCTA); Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; REVIEW; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84891833237     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-013-0819-6     Document Type: Review

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