Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 200-202 , July 2010

Death associated with an unruptured giant intracranial aneurysm

Received 16 February 2010 ,Revised 29 March 2010 ,Accepted 30 March 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00043-X

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.03.009

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 200-202 , July 2010

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