Evaluation of postmortem serum and cerebrospinal fluid levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone with special regard to fatal hypothermia

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Zhao, Dong ^a   Komatsu, Ayumi ^a   Azuma, Yoko ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Hamel, Marianne ^b   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

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

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothermia; Immunoassay; Immunohistochemistry; Thyroid stimulating hormone

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIRE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; INTOXICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL TIME; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIRES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; THYROTROPIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349093518     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.049     Document Type: Article

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