Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 87-91 , February 2007

Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome

  • Yasemin Balci

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
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  • Mehmet Tok

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ministry of Justice, Istanbul, Turkey
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  • B. Kenan Kocaturk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
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  • Çinar Yenilmez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
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  • Coşkun Yorulmaz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Received 31 August 2005 ,Revised 30 December 2005 ,Accepted 1 January 2006.

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☆ This article was presented in the 3rd European Academy of Forensic Science Meeting, 22–27 September 2003 and its abstract was published in the Forensic Science International, Volume 136/Suppl. 1 (2003).

PII: S1353-1131(06)00007-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jcfm.2006.01.004

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 87-91 , February 2007

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