A case of fatal arsenic poisoning

Forensic Toxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 88-91

  Moriya, Fumio ^a   Furumiya, Junichi ^a   Hashimoto, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic poisoning; Arsenic trioxide; Reinsch test; Tissue distribution; X Ray fluorescence spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDIAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER HOMOGENATE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33845863923     PISSN: 18608965     EISSN: 18608973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11419-006-0015-1     Document Type: Article

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