Combined analyses of creatine kinase MB, cardiac troponin I and myoglobin in pericardial and cerebrospinal fluids to investigate myocardial and skeletal muscle injury in medicolegal autopsy cases

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 226-232

  Wang, Qi ^a,b   Michiue, Tomomi ^a,b   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a,b   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,c   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a,b  

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

^b Medico legal Consultation and Postmortem Investigation Support Center   (Japan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiac troponin I; Cerebrospinal fluid; Creatine kinase MB; Death process; Myoglobin; Pericardial fluid; Postmortem biochemistry

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; METHAMPHETAMINE; MYOGLOBIN; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLD EXPOSURE; DROWNING; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; ELECTROCUTION; FEMALE; FIRE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEAT STROKE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGLOBIN; PERICARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TROPONIN I; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052139393     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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