Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 238-241 , September 2010

Virtopsy: CT and MR imaging of a fatal head injury caused by a hatchet: A case report

Received 5 March 2010 ,Revised 13 April 2010 ,Accepted 19 April 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00064-7

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.04.004

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 238-241 , September 2010