Postmortem serum erythropoietin levels in establishing the cause of death and survival time at medicolegal autopsy

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 481-487

  Quan, L ^a   Zhu, B L ^b   Ishikawa, T ^a   Michiue, T ^a   Zhao, D ^a   Li, D R ^c   Ogawa, M ^d   Maeda, H ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OSAKA OHTANI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anemia; Erythropoietin; Forensic pathophysiology; Hypoxia; Postmortem blood biochemistry

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPITHELIUM CELL; FATALITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIA; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPHYXIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DROWNING; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; FIRES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UREMIA; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53849105741     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0276-9     Document Type: Article

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