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Arch Pathol Lab Med
; 110(10): 973-4, 1986 Oct.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3533005
RESUMO
Deliberate fatal injection of insulin is apparently a rare event. Its investigation generally requires demonstration of an exogenous insulin injection site and high blood or tissue levels. Interpretation of such results in postmortem samples can be difficult, and the demonstration of an insulin injection site has previously usually involved a tedious extraction procedure. We report a case of infanticide in which insulin was demonstrated immunohistochemically at the fatal injection site and discuss some aspects of interpretation of postmortem insulin levels.