Medicolegal Examination of Death from Poisoning

, Sang-Chul Kim

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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1989;13(2):37-40.

Medicolegal Examination of Death from Poisoning

Sang-Chul Kim

The Institute for Legal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Death from poisoning is one of the common cause in unusual death. But it can be diagnosed on the basis of exact analysis of posion and its proper interpretation. So the autopsy doctor have to take detail history, investigate the scene, interpret clinical signs and autopsy findings, collect the sample properly, and finally, transport rapidly to the laboratory.

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