Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 108-118 , May 2007

Providing medicolegal testimony

  • Elliott Foucar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Retired from active practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Elliott Foucar, MD, 14029 Wind Mtn Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87112.
  • ,
  • Mark R. Wick, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia.

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PII: S0740-2570(07)00047-0

doi: 10.1053/j.semdp.2007.03.004

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 108-118 , May 2007