Electrolyte analysis in pleural effusion as an indicator of the drowning medium

Legal Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-102

  Inoue, Hiromasa ^a   Ishida, Tomomi ^a   Tsuji, Akiko ^a   Kudo, Keiko ^a   Ikeda, Noriaki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drowning; Electrolytes; Plasma; Pleural effusion; Total protein

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; ELECTROLYTE; FRESH WATER; PLASMA PROTEIN; SEA WATER; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEATH; DROWNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; RAT;

EID: 13644256039     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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