Forensic and medico-legal radiology: challenges, issues and new perspectives

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 777-778

  Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Nasuto, Michelangelo ^a   Pinto, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; RADIOLOGY;

AUTOPSY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 84940436304     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: 18266983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-015-0567-4     Document Type: Editorial

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