Evaluation of postmortem urea nitrogen, creatinine and uric acid levels in pericardial fluid in forensic autopsy

Legal Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 287-292

  Zhu, Bao Li ^a   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Li, Dong Ri ^a   Zhao, Dong ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Forensic pathophysiology; Pericardial fluid; Postmortem biochemistry; Urea nitrogen; Uric acid

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NITROGEN; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DROWNING; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIRE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; INTOXICATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SEX FACTORS; URIC ACID;

EID: 24344439339     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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