Elevated formic acid concentrations in putrefied post-mortem blood and urine samples

Forensic Science International

Volumn 208, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 42-46

  Viinamäki, Jenni ^a   Rasanen, Ilpo ^a   Vuori, Erkki ^a   Ojanperä, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blood; Formic acid; GC MS; Methanol poisoning; Putrefaction; Urine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FLUORIDE SODIUM; FORMIC ACID; METHANOL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYOPRESERVATION; DECOMPOSITION; FATALITY; HUMAN; IN TUBE EXTRACTION GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY COUPLED TO MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHANOL POISONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTREFACTION; URINALYSIS;

EID: 79955471847     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.10.026     Document Type: Article

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