@article{ref1,
title="Putrefactive pleural effusions as an alternative sample for drug quantification",
journal="American journal of forensic medicine and pathology",
year="1999",
author="Sims, D. N. and Lokan, R. J. and James, R. A. and Felgate, Peter D. and Felgate, H. E. and Gardiner, J. and Vozzo, D. C.",
volume="20",
number="4",
pages="343-346",
abstract="In the investigation of drug-related deaths it is occasionally necessary to examine putrefied bodies. In such cases the availability of conventional body fluids for toxicologic analysis is usually limited, whereas blood-stained pleural effusion is often present in adequate quantity in the pleural cavity. Fifty-five cases involving numerous drugs are presented in which pleural effusion drug concentrations are compared with corresponding blood or liver concentrations. More than 90% of comparisons produced coincident interpretations of the role that drugs played in the deaths. In most instances pleural effusion analysis was shown to be a valid alternative to the analysis of blood or other conventional fluids or tissues in cases exhibiting advanced putrefaction.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0195-7910",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}