Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 1-5 , January 2012

Renal immunohistochemical investigation for the differentiation of the cause of multiple trauma fatalities

  • Tomoko Sugimura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan
    • ,
  • Elaine Lu Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan
    • ,
  • Masayuki Kashiwagi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan
    • ,
  • Kenji Hara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan
    • ,
  • Aya Matsusue

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan
    • ,
  • Brian Waters

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan
    • ,
  • Shin-ichi Kubo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan. Tel.: +81 92 801 1011x3330; fax: +81 92 801 4266.

Received 6 June 2011 ,Revised 15 September 2011 ,Accepted 15 September 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.09.003

Legal Medicine
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