Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 5 , Pages 322-324 , July 2008

Prevalence of pulmonary thromboemboli among referred cadavers having hospitalization records to Tehran Legal Medicine Center

  • Babak Mostafazadeh, MD (Assistant of Legal Medicine)

      Affiliations

    • Legal Medicine Department, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel./fax: +98 021 66919206.
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  • Esmaeil Farzaneh Sheikh Ahmad, MD (Assistant of Legal Medicine)

      Affiliations

    • Legal Medicine Department, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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  • Hassan Tofighi Zavvareh, MD (Professor of Legal Medicine)

      Affiliations

    • Legal Medicine Department, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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  • Jaber Gharadaghi, MD (Assistant Professor of Legal Medicine)

      Affiliations

    • Legal Medicine Center, Tehran, Iran
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  • Sepideh Saleki, MD (Pathologist)

      Affiliations

    • Legal Medicine Center, Tehran, Iran

Received 15 April 2007 ,Revised 2 October 2007 ,Accepted 31 December 2007.

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PII: S1752-928X(08)00003-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.12.017

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 5 , Pages 322-324 , July 2008

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