Kintz P, Tracqui A, Ludes B, Waller J, Boukhabza A, Mangin P, Lugnier A A, Chaumont A J
Institute of Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg, France.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1990 Mar;11(1):63-5. doi: 10.1097/00000433-199003000-00008.
Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to perform because of the absence of blood and urine. In this study, fly larvae, being living material, are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic toxicology. Bromazepam and levomepromazine were identified and assayed in the remains of cerebral tissue, in the clavicle of a putrefied cadaver, and in the fly larvae found on and in the corpse.
