Levels of Potassium in the Vitreous Humour after Death
- 1 July 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law
- Vol. 5 (3) , 150-156
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002580246500500306
Abstract
Levels of vitreous potassium were studied in 135 routine post-mortem cases. A rise in the potassium level was found but it could not be correlated with sufficient consistency with the post-mortem interval to make this an accurate method of estimating the time of death.Keywords
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- Postmortem Chemistry of the Vitreous Body in ManArchives of Ophthalmology (1950), 1959