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Articles

Analytical data supporting the “theoretical” postmortem redistribution factor (Ft): a new model to evaluate postmortem redistribution

Pages 33-37 | Received 13 Sep 2016, Accepted 24 Oct 2016, Published online: 16 Dec 2016

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