Fatal and non-fatal cases of lime sulfide exposure and pathogenetic mechanisms underlying pancreatic injury: Case reports with an animal experiment

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 358-362

  Zuka, Masahiko ^a   Chinaka, Satoshi ^b   Matsumoto, Yutaka ^c   Takayama, Nariaki ^b   Hitomi, Yoshiaki ^a   Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohshima, Tohru ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^c ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Animal experiment; Forensic toxicology; Hydrogen sulfide; Lime sulfide poisoning; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LIME SULFIDE POISONING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS INJURY; SUICIDE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AMYLASES; ANIMALS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHILS; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; STOMACH; SUICIDE; SULFIDES; THIOSULFATES;

EID: 84864453845     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: 18787487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2012.02.027     Document Type: Article

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