Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 113-116 , May 2010

Predictors of hyoid fracture in hanging: Discriminant function analysis of morphometric variables

  • Partha Pratim Mukhopadhyay

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress: B.M.C Doctors’ Qrt., Flat No. 6 Block I, Baburbag, Burdwan, India. Tel.: +91 9832095653.

Received 8 November 2009 ,Revised 8 January 2010 ,Accepted 12 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.01.002

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 113-116 , May 2010

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