The use of contrast-enhanced post mortem CT in the detection of cardiovascular deaths

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Apitzsch, Jonas Christoph ^a   Westphal, Saskia ^b   Penzkofer, Tobias ^b,c   Kuhl, Christiane Katharina ^b   Knuc̈hel, Ruth ^b   Mahnken, Andreas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POST MORTEM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; CADAVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC USE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84899769077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093101     Document Type: Article

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