Postmortem diagnosis of fatal anaphylaxis during intravenous administration of therapeutic and diagnostic agents: Evaluation of clinical laboratory parameters and immunohistochemistry in three cases

Legal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-147

  Osawa, Motoki ^a   Satoh, Fumiko ^a   Horiuchi, Hidekazu ^b   Tian, Wei ^b   Kugota, Nobuko ^b   Hasegawa, Iwao ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaphylaxis; Chymase; Immunohistochemistry; Mast cell; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANALGESIC AGENT; CEFOTIAM; CHYMASE INHIBITOR; ENZYME ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IOXAGLIC ACID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NOLPORT; TRYPTASE; TRYPTASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FATALITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAST CELL; PARAMETER; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 40249116721     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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