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Commentary on: Management of unidentified and unclaimed bodies: a comparison of model from four countries in the Asia Pacific Region

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Abbreviations

10:

Forensics

10.010:

Pathology

10.020:

Medicine

10.030:

Science

10.070:

Identification

10.090:

Anthropology

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  1. LABANOF, Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense, Sezione Dipartimentale di Medicina Legale, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Luigi Mangiagalli 37, Milan, 20133, Italy

    Cristina Cattaneo & Lorenzo Franceschetti

  2. Sezione di Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Luigi Mangiagalli, 37, Milano, 20133, Italy

    Lorenzo Franceschetti

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Conceptualization, L.F.; methodology, L.F.; validation, C.C.; data curation, D.M. and L.F.; writing—original draft preparation, L.F.; writing—review and editing, C.C.; supervision, C.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Cattaneo, C., Franceschetti, L. Commentary on: Management of unidentified and unclaimed bodies: a comparison of model from four countries in the Asia Pacific Region. Forensic Sci Med Pathol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-024-00806-7

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