Body fluid and tissue analysis using filter paper sampling support prior to LC-MS/MS: Application to fatal overdose with colchicine

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 763-772

  Lauer, Estelle ^a   Widmer, Christèle ^a   Versace, François ^a   Staub, Christian ^a   Mangin, Patrice ^a   Sabatasso, Sara ^a   Augsburger, Marc ^a   Déglon, Julien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Dried blood spots; Intoxication; LC MS MS; Tissue analysis

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EXTRACTION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HISTOLOGY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PAPER;

COLCHICINE; DRIED BLOOD SPOT; FILTER PAPERS; FLUID ANALYSIS; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; INTOXICATION; LC-MS-MS; LC.MS/MS; MATRIX; TISSUE ANALYSIS;

TISSUE;

ACEMETACIN; ALLOPURINOL; CAFFEINE; CANNABIS; COLCHICINE; DRONABINOL; MORPHINE; MORPHINE 3 GLUCURONIDE; OPIATE; OXIPURINOL; PARACETAMOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE HEPATITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY FLUID; CALIBRATION; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG LIVER LEVEL; DRUG MUSCLE LEVEL; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG URINE LEVEL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOASSAY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETER; MELENA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PAPER CHROMATOGRAPHY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE SECTION; TOXICOLOGY; VOMITING;

COLCHICINE; DRIED BLOOD SPOTS; INTOXICATION; LC-MS/MS; TISSUE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BODY FLUIDS; CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COLCHICINE; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; PAPER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUBULIN MODULATORS;

EID: 84886099518     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1496     Document Type: Article

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