title: [Indications of medical-legal autopsy in France].
abstract: The crime can be disimulate under differents masks: a natural death, an accident, a suicide. The doubt exists anytime; for everybody: forensic pathologist, magistrate and policemen. It is most of the fine impossible to be sure of the cause of the death without an autopsy. In case of maltreated children, only the autopsy can confirm that the death is in relation ship with au shaking child syndrom. When a practitioner signs a certificate of death, he must be very careful all time.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Place d'Arsonval-69437 Lyon.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malicier
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D002648:Child; D003644:Death Certificates; D003645:Death, Sudden; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D013405:Suicide