Discrepancies between clinical and autoptic diagnoses in Italy: evaluation of 879 consecutive cases at the "Policlinico of Bari" teaching hospital in the period 1990-2009.

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Published in Ann Ist Super Sanita on January 01, 2014

Authors

Sara Sblano1, Alessandra Arpaio, Fiorenza Zotti, Andrea Marzullo, Alessandro Bonsignore, Alessandro Dell'Erba

Author Affiliations

1: Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina, Sezione di Medicina Legale, Università di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy. E-mail: ssblano@gmail.com.

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