Postmortem Redistribution of Tramadol and O-Desmethyltramadol

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 670-675

  Costa, Isabel ^a,b   Oliveira, Ana ^a,c,d   de Pinho, Paula Guedes ^c   Teixeira, Helena Maria ^b,e,g   Moreira, Roxana ^a,f   Carvalho, Félix ^c   Dinis Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge ^a,c,f,h  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO E FORMAÇÃO AVANÇADA EM CIÊNCIAS E TECNOLOGIAS DA SAÚDE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c Campus Universitário de Santiago   (Portugal)

^d PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE MEDICINA LEGAL E CIÊNCIAS FORENSES   (Portugal)

^f University of Porto   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^h CESPU   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O NORTRAMADOL; TRAMADOL;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; POSTMORTEM REDISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG OVERDOSE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MYOCARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRAMADOL;

EID: 84885721867     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: 19452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/bkt084     Document Type: Article

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