Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 462-466 , October 2008

Unusually extensive head trauma in a hydraulic elevator accident: Post-mortem MSCT findings, autopsy results and scene reconstruction

  • Christina Jacobsen (MD PhD (Medical Doctor))

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Medicine and Virtopsy, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
    • University of Copenhagen, Department of Forensic Medicine, Frederik d V’s Vej 11, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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  • Corinna A. Schön (Dr Med (Medical Doctor))

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Medicine and Virtopsy, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 31 631 84 11; fax: +41 31 631 38 33.
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  • Beat Kneubuehl (Dipl Math Dr Sc Forens (Mathematician and Physicist))

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Physics and Ballistics, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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  • Michael J. Thali (Dr Med (Medical Doctor))

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Medicine and Virtopsy, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Emin Aghayev (Dr Med (Medical Doctor))

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Medicine and Virtopsy, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

Received 5 December 2007 ,Accepted 6 March 2008.

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PII: S1752-928X(08)00048-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2008.03.006

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 462-466 , October 2008

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