Not only smoking is deadly: fatal ingestion of e-juice—a case report

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 481-486

  Bartschat, Svenja ^a   Mercer Chalmers Bender, Katja ^a   Beike, Justus ^a   Rothschild, Markus A ^a   Jübner, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

E cigarette; Intoxication; Nicotine; Organ distribution; Post mortem redistribution; Suicide

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PSYCHOSIS; SMOKING; STOMACH JUICE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; MALE; NICOTINE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SMOKING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84930797125     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-014-1086-x     Document Type: Review

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