Death in bags. Helium-associated suicide in medico-legal practice;Tod in tüten. Heliumassoziierter suizid in der rechtsmedizinischen praxis

Rechtsmedizin

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-11

  Bittorf, A ^a   Thieme, D ^b   Puschel K ^c   Friedrich, P ^c   Peschel, O ^d   Rentsch, D ^a   Buttner A ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b Institut für Dopinganalytik Dresden   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Forensic toxicology; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Internet; Plastics

Indexed keywords

HELIUM;

ARTICLE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; SUICIDE;

EID: 84863715634     PISSN: 09379819     EISSN: 14345196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00194-011-0802-9     Document Type: Article

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