Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 19-22 , January 2010

Estimation of postmortem interval based on the spectrophotometric analysis of postmortem lividity

Received 18 August 2009 ,Accepted 30 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.09.008

Legal Medicine
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