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      Performance of post-mortem CT compared to autopsy in children.

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          Radiological techniques such as non-enhanced post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) play an increasingly important role in death investigations, especially in cases of non-medicolegal context of death, where the consent of the next of kin is required to perform autopsy. Such consent is often difficult to obtain for deceased children, and radiological methods may be an acceptable alternative. The aim of our study was to evaluate the performance of PMCT explorations compared to medicolegal conventional autopsies in children and its potential usefulness in non-medicolegal situations.

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          Journal
          Int J Legal Med
          International journal of legal medicine
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          1437-1596
          0937-9827
          Jul 2016
          : 130
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, University Hospital of Lausanne, Chemin de la Vulliette 4, 1000, Lausanne 25, Switzerland.
          [2 ] Department of Pathology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
          [3 ] Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
          [4 ] University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, University Hospital of Lausanne, Chemin de la Vulliette 4, 1000, Lausanne 25, Switzerland. Silke.Grabherr@chuv.ch.
          Article
          10.1007/s00414-016-1370-z
          10.1007/s00414-016-1370-z
          27221535
          20f6837f-5b67-4194-b144-d044dc79293a
          History

          Pediatric imaging,Forensic radiology,Forensic imaging,Post-mortem CT

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