Sudden infant death syndrome: Postmortem findings of nicotine and cotinine in pericardial fluid of infants in relation to morphological changes and position at death

Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-97

  Rajs, Jovan ^a   Râsten Almqvist, Petra ^b   Falck, Geir ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

body position; cotinine; infant death; nicotine; pathology; pericardial fluid

Indexed keywords

COTININE; NICOTINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; LIVER NECROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

EID: 0031012414     PISSN: 10771042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15513819709168348     Document Type: Article

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