Digital image analysis of fingernail colour in cadavers comparing carbon monoxide poisoning to controls
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Digital image analysis of fingernail colour in cadavers comparing carbon monoxide poisoning to controls.
Carbon monoxide is a component of motor vehicle exhaust fumes, provided a functional catalytic converter is not present. This gas binds avidly to the hemoglobin molecule in red blood cells preventing its oxygen transport function, effectively poisoning the body by starving it of oxygen. In binding to hemoglobin, carbon monoxide forms carboxyhemoglobin, which has a characteristic bright pink col...
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عنوان ژورنال: Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1547-769X,1556-2891
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-009-9122-8