Traumatic extra-axial hemorrhage: Correlation of postmortem MSCT, MRI, and forensic-pathological findings

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 823-836

  Añon, Javier ^a   Remonda, Luca ^a   Spreng, Adrian ^a   Scheurer, Eva ^a   Schroth, Gerhard ^a   Boesch, Chris ^a   Thali, Michael ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Correlation; Forensic neuropathology; Postmortem MRI; Traumatic extra axial hemorrhage: postmortem MSCT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

EID: 84907421484     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21495     Document Type: Article

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