Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 203-207 , July 2010

Autopsy of two frozen newborn infants discovered in a home freezer

Received 15 December 2009 ,Revised 2 March 2010 ,Accepted 11 April 2010.

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 Presented in part at the XXI Congress of the International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM) (Lisbon 2009).

PII: S1344-6223(10)00062-3

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.04.002

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 203-207 , July 2010