Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 154-156 , May 2010

Minimally invasive post-mortem CT-angiography in a case involving a gunshot wound

Received 7 December 2009 ,Revised 16 February 2010 ,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00034-9

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.02.005

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 154-156 , May 2010