Citation

Holzbecher MD, Hutton CJ. J. Can. Soc. Forensic Sci. 1989; 22(1): 97-99.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Canadian Society of Forensic Science, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00085030.1989.10757424

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A case of suicide by inhalation of hydrogen cyanide is reported. The pathological findings and levels of cyanide obtained by a microdiffusion and UV spectrophotometric method in postmortem specimens are given. The level found in the blood (29 mg/L) is higher than in any hydrogen cyanide inhalation cases reported in the literature.