Postmortem toxicological redistribution

Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Topical Developments, Trends and Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-21

  Drummer, Olaf H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-835-7_1     Document Type: Chapter

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