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Volume 5, Issue 1 , Pages 27-33 , March 2003

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation does not cause left ventricular rupture of the heart with acute myocardial infarction: a pathological analysis of 77 autopsy cases

  • Aya Takada

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Saitama Medical School, Moro-Hongo 38, Moroyama, Saitama 350-0495, Japan
    • Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-49-276-1177; fax: +81-49-294-9713
    • ,
  • Kazuyuki Saito

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Saitama Medical School, Moro-Hongo 38, Moroyama, Saitama 350-0495, Japan
    • Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan
    • ,
  • Masahiko Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Saitama Medical School, Moro-Hongo 38, Moroyama, Saitama 350-0495, Japan
    • Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan

Received 26 November 2002 ,Revised 19 December 2002 ,Accepted 24 December 2002.

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