Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 242-245 , September 2010

Unexpected death of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis complicated by a cervical deformity

  • Kana Unuma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
    • Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo 102-8471, Japan
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  • Kazuki Harada

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan. Tel.: +81 3 5841 3367; fax: +81 3 5841 3366.
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  • Makoto Nakajima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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  • Takako Ito

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
    • Department of Health Services Management and Policy, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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  • Kosuke Okutsu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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  • Ken-ichi Yoshida

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Received 15 January 2010 ,Revised 21 May 2010 ,Accepted 2 June 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00091-X

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.06.001

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 242-245 , September 2010