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Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 321-324 , August 2009

Electrolyte analysis of pleural effusion as an indicator of drowning in seawater and freshwater

Yosuke Usumoto, MD (Postgraduate Student)
- Department of Forensic Pathology and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Naomi Sameshima, ABc (Research Technician)
- Department of Forensic Pathology and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Wakako Hikiji, MD (Postgraduate Student)
- Department of Forensic Pathology and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Akiko Tsuji, PhD (Assistant Professor)
- Department of Forensic Pathology and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Keiko Kudo, PhD (Assistant Professor)
- Department of Forensic Pathology and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Hiromasa Inoue, MD, PhD (Associate Professor)
- Department of Forensic Medicine and Sciences, Institute of Social and Environmental Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Edobashi 2-174, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
Noriaki Ikeda, MD, PhD (Professor)
- Department of Forensic Pathology and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 92 642 6124; fax: +81 92 642 6126.

Received 10 June 2008 ,Revised 2 October 2008 ,Accepted 23 December 2008.

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