Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 151-153 , May 2010

Two infant deaths linked to intussusception without peritonitis

  • Hirotaro Iwase

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 43 226 2078; fax: +81 43 226 2079.
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  • Hisako Motani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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  • Daisuke Yajima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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  • Mutsumi Hayakawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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  • Kazuhiro Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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  • Kaoru Sato

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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  • Katsura Otsuka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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  • Yukio Nakatani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Chiba University Hospital, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan

Received 21 December 2009 ,Revised 4 February 2010 ,Accepted 4 February 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00031-3

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.02.002

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 151-153 , May 2010

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