Pericardial fluid postmortem: Comparative study of natural and violent deaths

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 266-268

  Arroyo, A ^a,b   Valero, J ^a   Marron, T ^a   Vidai, C ^a   Hontecillas, B ^a   Bernal, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b 2o 2a 08901 Hospitalet   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pericardial fluid analysis; Postmortem biochemistry; Thanatochemistry

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN; SODIUM; UREA;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; TIME OF DEATH;

AUTOPSY; CALCIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POTASSIUM; PROTEINS; SODIUM; UREA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031751483     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199809000-00014     Document Type: Article

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