Forensic aspects of postmortem serum carbohydrate-deficient transferrin analysis as a marker of alcohol abuse

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 203-206

  Popović, Vesna ^a   Atanasijević, Tatjana ^a   Nikolić, Slobodan ^a   Božić, Nataša ^b   Vujčić, Zoran ^a   Micić Labudović, Jelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b IHTM Centre of Chemistry   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT); Postmortem analysis; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926688772     PISSN: 03708179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/SARH1304203P     Document Type: Article

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