Citation

Reiter C. Z. Rechtsmed. 1984; 93(2): 79-88.

Vernacular Title

Zum Nachweis des Ertrinkungstodes mittels ins Herzblut eingeschwemmter

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6516603

Abstract

Post-mortem cytological examinations of left heart blood have established that in cigarette smokers drowning or aspiration of liquids cause smoker cells to be washed from the pulmonary alveoli into the heart blood. Cytochemical detection of smoker cells in the heart blood is recommended as a forensic test with regard to diagnosing the vitality of drowning.

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