Citation

Kirkbride KP, Manock CH. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1992; 13(4): 353-354.

Affiliation

Forensic Science Center, Adelaide, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1288271

Abstract

We have found that an efficient method of providing evidence of lethal solvent abuse is to sample headspace above lung tissue and then perform cryogenically focused gas-liquid chromatography. In the case presented, the level of lethal agent in lung tissue was low, but the solvent was present in abundance in the pleural cavity. We conclude that the pleural cavity acts as an efficient trap for aspirated substances.

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