Clitoral metastasis from uterine cervical cancer: A case report and review of the literature.

A 81-year-old woman vaginal bleeding and vulvar pain. Pretreatment work-up revealed a 4.5 cm cervical cancer extended to the lower-third of the vagina and an isolated clitoral metastasis.

A sudden death following tetracaine-induced spinal anesthesia.

A 56-year-old Japanese woman died after being given 10 mg of tetracaine to induce spinal anesthesia in preparation for orthopedic surgery. Autopsy findings and microscopic analysis revealed no external injuries or disease, and further toxicological examinations were carried out to determine the cause of death. For this we used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Performance of immunoassays in screening for opiates, cannabinoids and amphetamines in post-mortem blood.

Several immunoassay methods for screening of abused drugs in whole blood were evaluated in post-mortem forensic toxicology. Blood samples known to be positive or negative for opiates, cannabinoids or amphetamines by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were analysed by EMIT II Plus and EMIT d.a.

Toxicological analysis of chlorhexidine in human serum using HPLC on a polymer-coated ODS column.

A simple and reliable high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for analyzing chlorhexidine in human serum was developed. After the addition of an internal standard, levomepromazine, 0.2 mL serum was deproteinized with 10% perchloric acid.