Legal Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 291-293 , November 2009

An infantile case of asphyxia with coincidental myocarditis

  • Jun Sakai

      Affiliations

    • Division of Forensic Medicine, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Division of Forensic Medicine, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Seiryo-machi, Sendai 980-8575, Japan. Tel.: +81 22 717 8110; fax: +81 22 717 8112.
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  • Takuya Moriya

      Affiliations

    • Department 2 of Pathology, Kawasaki Medical School, Japan
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  • Shirushi Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Division of Forensic Medicine, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan
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  • Masaki Hashiyada

      Affiliations

    • Division of Forensic Medicine, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan
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  • Masato Funayama

      Affiliations

    • Division of Forensic Medicine, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan

Received 13 April 2009 ,Revised 23 June 2009 ,Accepted 9 July 2009.

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PII: S1344-6223(09)00299-5

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.07.001

Legal Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 291-293 , November 2009

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