Forensic and legal aspects of mistakes in the work of pathologists

Savic Slobodan ,
Savic Slobodan
Milenkovic Sanja
Milenkovic Sanja

Published: 01.12.2013.

Biochemistry

Volume 30, Issue 2 (2014)

pp. 1147-1160;

https://doi.org/10.5937/matmed1402147s

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