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 ,Revised 21 January 2010 ,Accepted 5 March 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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