Citation

Pla A, Hernández AF, Gil F, Garcia-Alonso M, Villanueva E. Forensic Sci. Int. 1991; 49(2): 193-196.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine, University of Granada, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1855718

Abstract

A 41-year-old man ingested orally a large quantity of methanol and was found dead at home. The presence of methanol in body fluids and tissues was determined by head-space gas chromatography. The blood ethanol and acetone were negative. Tissue distribution of methanol showed that the kidney presented the highest content of methanol (5.13 g/kg) followed by liver (4.18 g/kg), vitreous humor (3.96 g/l), heart (3.45 g/kg), urine (3.43 g/l), pericardial fluid (3.29 g/l), blood (2.84 g/l) and finally stomach content (2.21 g/l).

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