ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to thank the Instituto Me´dico Legal of Sa˜o Paulo and

Servic¸o de Verificac¸a˜o de O´ bitos de Sa˜o Paulo for collaborating on the

present study and the Fundac¸a˜o de Amparo a` Pesquisa do Estado de Sa˜o

Paulo – FAPESP for financial support.

& AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The authorship contribution for the present article occurred as follows.

Silva LF, Saldiva PH and Pasqualucci CA conceived and designed the

study and final approved the final version of the manuscript. Kay FU and

Amaro Jr E were responsible for the postmortem computed tomography

study. Ferro AC was responsible for the conventional autopsy. Zerbini T

was responsible for the manuscript drafting