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Urine may serve as a window of intracranial hematoma for detecting alcohol in non-brain-dead trauma victims

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  1. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, 701-0193, Japan

    Fumio Moriya

  2. Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

    Fumio Moriya

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Moriya, F. Urine may serve as a window of intracranial hematoma for detecting alcohol in non-brain-dead trauma victims. Forensic Toxicol 28, 58–60 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-009-0085-y

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