Brain death with calcium oxalate deposition in the kidney: Clue to the diagnosis of ethylene glycol poisoning

Legal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-45

  Takahashi, Shirushi ^a   Kanetake, Jun ^a   Kanawaku, Yoshimasa ^b   Funayama, Masato ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain death; Calcium oxalate deposition; Ethylene glycol poisoning

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DURA MATER; EMERGENCY WARD; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPTIC STATE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OLIGURIA; PALLOR; SLURRED SPEECH; TACHYPNEA; TIME OF DEATH;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; CALCIUM OXALATE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX NECROSIS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; POISONING; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 36448943957     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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