Postmortem serum levels of pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins A and D with regard to the cause of death in medicolegal autopsy

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Quan, Li ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,b   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Zhao, Dong ^a   Yoshida, Chiemi ^a   Chen, Jian Hua ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Komatsu, Ayumi ^a   Azuma, Yoko ^a   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

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

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Forensic pathophysiology; Lung injury; Pneumonia; Postmortem blood biochemistry; Pulmonary surfactant associated protein

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLD EXPOSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTOXICATION; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL ASPHYXIATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FIRES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN D; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67349224608     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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