Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 157-159, May 2010

A fatality involving an unusual route of fentanyl delivery: Chewing and aspirating the transdermal patch

  • Henry J. Carson

      Affiliations

    • Office of the Jackson County Medical Examiner, Kansas City, MO, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Office of the Jackson County Medical Examiner, 660 E 24th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA. Tel.: +1 816 881 6600 (O); fax: +1 816 881 6598.
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  • Laura D. Knight

      Affiliations

    • Onondaga County Department of Health, Medical Examiner’s Office, Syracuse, NY, USA
    • State University of New York School of Medicine, Syracuse, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Mary H. Dudley

      Affiliations

    • Office of the Jackson County Medical Examiner, Kansas City, MO, USA
    • University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA
    • ,
  • Uttam Garg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA

Received 13 December 2009; received in revised form 21 January 2010; accepted 5 March 2010. published online 02 April 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00035-0

doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.03.001

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 157-159, May 2010

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