Blood cyanide determination in two cases of fatal intoxication: Comparison between headspace gas chromatography and a spectrophotometric method

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1401-1404

  Gambaro, Veniero ^a   Arnoldi, Sebastiano ^a   Casagni, Eleonora ^a   Dell'Acqua, Lucia ^a   Pecoraro, Chiara ^a   Froldi, Rino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACERATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conway cell; Cyanide; Forensic science; Headspace gas chromatography

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANIDE POISONING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NITROGEN PHOSPHORUS DETECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYANIDES; FEMALE; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 36949018391     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00570.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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