Methamphetamine body packer: Acute poisoning death due to massive leaking of methamphetamine

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1219-1222

  Takekawa, Kenichi ^a,b   Ohmori, Takeshi ^a,c   Kido, Akira ^b   Oya, Masakazu ^b  

^a Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body packer; Fatal level; Forensic science; Impurity profiling; Methamphetamine; Redistribution; Toxicological analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INTOXICATION; HUMAN; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CRIME; FOREIGN BODIES; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NIGERIA; OVERDOSE; STOMACH;

EID: 34548307024     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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