Citation

Ameno K, Fuke C, Ameno S, Kiriu T, Sogo K, Ijiri I. Forensic Sci. Int. 1989; 41(3): 255-260.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, Kagawa Medical School, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2777158

Abstract

A 51-year-old male ingested orally a large quantity of toluene and died about 30 min later. The presence of toluene in body fluids and tissues was confirmed by gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Tissue distribution of toluene showed that the liver detected the highest content of toluene (433.5 micrograms/g), except for the stomach contents, followed by pancreas (88.2 micrograms/g), brain (85.3 micrograms/g), heart (62.6 micrograms/g), blood (27.6 micrograms/g), fat (12.2 micrograms/g) and finally cerebrospinal fluid (11.1 micrograms/g).

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