Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 313-315 , November 2010

Incidental findings in post-mortem CT: Calcified ligamentum arteriosum

Received 15 June 2010 ,Revised 28 July 2010 ,Accepted 29 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.07.003

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 313-315 , November 2010