Visualization of myocardial infarction by post-mortem single-organ coronary computed tomography: a feasibility study

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 517-524

  Polacco, Matteo ^a,b   Sedati, Pietro ^b   Arena, Vincenzo ^a   Pascali, Vincenzo L ^a   Zobel, Bruno Beomonte ^b   Oliva, Antonio ^a   Rossi, Riccardo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Myocardial infarction; Post mortem; Single organ coronary computed tomography; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; CLASSIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84939947493     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-014-1085-y     Document Type: Article

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