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Metadata
Title
A fatal case of heroin body packing in Turkey
Authors
Bahadır Kumral
Yalçın Büyük
Fikret Yeşiloğlu
Ö. Lütfi Özkan
Publication date
01-08-2014
Publisher
Springer Japan
Published in
Forensic Toxicology / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 1860-8965
Electronic ISSN: 1860-8973
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-013-0222-5

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