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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Namık Kemal Universty Medical Faculty, Tekirdağ, Turkey

    Bahadır Kumral

  2. Council of Forensic Medicine, Kımız Street, Istanbul, 34196, Turkey

    Yalçın Büyük, Fikret Yeşiloğlu & Ö. Lütfi Özkan

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Kumral, B., Büyük, Y., Yeşiloğlu, F. et al. A fatal case of heroin body packing in Turkey. Forensic Toxicol 32, 338–339 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-013-0222-5

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