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Michael Pickup
Back to facultyAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto
Research
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Latest papers
A Novel Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion Diagnosed on Postmortem Imaging.
The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology · 2024
Bouveret's syndrome-a rare form of gallstone ileus causing death: appearance on post-mortem CT and MRI.
BJR case reports · 2017
2 publications.
01
A Novel Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion Diagnosed on Postmortem Imaging.
Qamar SH, Maraj T, Pickup M, Khara M
The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology2024
02
Bouveret's syndrome-a rare form of gallstone ileus causing death: appearance on post-mortem CT and MRI.
Bruni SG, Pickup M, Thorpe D
BJR case reports2017
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