Simultaneous quantification of tramadol and O-desmethyltramadol in hair samples by gas chromatography-electron impact/mass spectrometry

Biomedical Chromatography

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1003-1011

  Pinho, Sandra ^a   Oliveira, Ana ^a,b,c   Costa, Isabel ^a   Gouveia, Carla Alexandra ^a   Carvalho, Félix ^b   Moreira, Roxana Falcão ^a,d   Dinis Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge ^a,b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES IUCS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^e University of Porto   (Portugal)

^f Polytechnic Health Institute of North   (Portugal)

Author keywords

GC EI MS; Hair; O desmethyltramadol (M1); Tramadol

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHASE SEPARATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRON IMPACT MASS SPECTROMETRY; EXTERNAL CONTAMINATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-ELECTRON IMPACT/MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; HUMAN HAIR; MATRIX; O-DESMETHYLTRAMADOL; O-DESMETHYLTRAMADOL (M1); TRAMADOL; ULTRASONIC BATH;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

O NORTRAMADOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG METABOLISM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METHODOLOGY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84880268506     PISSN: 02693879     EISSN: 10990801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmc.2894     Document Type: Article

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