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Correspondence
Targeted autopsy practice for coroners is likely to miss diagnoses
  1. William Patrick Tormey1,2
  1. 1Department of Chemical Pathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  2. 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northen Ireland, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor William Patrick Tormey, Department of Chemical Pathology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin 9, Ireland; billtormey{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2016-204032

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