Pathomorphological and CT-angiographical characteristics of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in cases of sudden cardiac death

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1067-1077

  Michaud, Katarzyna ^a   Grabherr, Silke ^a   Faouzi, Mohamed ^b   Grimm, Jochen ^a,c   Doenz, Francesco ^c   Mangin, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Departement of Diagnostic and Intervential Radiology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery; Ischemic heart disease; MPMCTA; Postmortem CT angiography; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC MUSCLE; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SIZE; OVERWEIGHT; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE;

EID: 84940451476     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-015-1191-5     Document Type: Article

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