Analysis of postmortem biochemical findings with regard to the lung weight in drowning

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Maeda, Hitoshi ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,b   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Bessho, Yasumori ^a   Okazaki, Shuji ^a   Kamikodai, Yasunobu ^a   Tsuda, Kohei ^a   Komatsu, Ayumi ^a   Azuma, Yoko ^a  

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

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drowning; Electrolyte; Forensic pathology; Mineral; Postmortem blood biochemistry; Urea nitrogen

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; FRESH WATER; MAGNESIUM; SODIUM; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; LUNG WEIGHT; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CALCIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLORIDES; DROWNING; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PERICARDIUM; PLEURAL EFFUSION; SEAWATER; SODIUM;

EID: 67349172519     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.029     Document Type: Article

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