Homicidal arsenic poisoning.
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The case of a 50-year-old man who died mysteriously after being admitted to hospital is reported. He had raised the possibility of being poisoned prior to his death. A Coroner's post-mortem did not reveal the cause of death but this was subsequently established by post-mortem trace element analysis of liver, urine, blood and hair all of which revealed very high arsenic concentrations.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of clinical biochemistry
دوره 52 Pt 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015