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Case Reports in Vascular Medicine
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 108215, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/108215
Case Report
Postmortem Demonstration of the Source of Pulmonary Thromboembolism: The Importance of the Autopsy
Arkadi M Rywlin, M. D. Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,
Florida International University, Miami, FL 3319, USA
Received 13 July 2011; Accepted 16 August 2011
Academic Editor: E. Minar
Copyright © 2011 Gina Elhammady et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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