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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Forensic Sci Int. 2015 Oct 26;257:435–441. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.10.021

Table 7.

Tissue Distributions of Fentanyl, Norfentanyl, Acetyl Fentanyl and Acetyl Norfentanyl (concentrations shown in units of mg/L or mg/Kg).

Case Drug PB HB Vitreous Brain Liver Bile Urine
1 Fentanyl 0.021 0.032 0.029 0.108 0.210 0.320 1.200
Norfentanyl 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.003 0.028 0.250 0.840
Acetyl Fentanyl 0.009 0.026 0.031 0.080 0.180 0.140 0.980
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.011 0.340 0.470
2 Fentanyl 0.015 0.014 0.018 0.047 0.052 0.061 0.011
Norfentanyl 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.007 0.032 0.056
Acetyl Fentanyl 0.012 0.006 0.001 0.037 0.029 0.023 0.003
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.006 0.005 0.023 0.017
3 Fentanyl 0.019 0.016 0.012 0.077 0.084 0.025 0.015
Norfentanyl 0.008 0.003 0.004 0.004 0.002 0.010 0.026
Acetyl Fentanyl 0.006 0.002 0.004 0.021 0.036 0.022 0.015
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.004 0.004 0.013 0.032
4 Fentanyl 0.005 0.019 0.008 0.040 0.081 0.034
Norfentanyl 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.004 0.003 0.012
5 Fentanyl 0.005 0.020 0.029 0.140 0.062 0.062 0.042
Norfentanyl 0.0002 0.001 0.001 0.0003 0.003 0.003 0.006
6 Fentanyl 0.027 0.038 0.032 0.110 0.340 0.150 0.064
Norfentanyl 0.003 0.005 0.002 0.001 0.014 0.019 0.038
8 Fentanyl 0.015 0.041 0.008 0.120 0.098 0.046 0.051
Norfentanyl 0.002 0.005 0.001 0.002 0.012 0.029 0.120
11 Acetyl Fentanyl 0.310 0.700 0.290 1.100 0.690 0.540 6.200
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.063 0.086 0.025 0.064 0.190 0.300 3.400
12 Acetyl Fentanyl 0.400 0.400 0.100 1.700 1.800 0.100
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.003 0.004 0.001 0.005 0.020 0.015
13 Acetyl Fentanyl 0.560 0.980 0.300 1.100 1.200 0.800 0.130
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.002 0.004 0.002 0.007 0.016 0.095 0.100
14 Acetyl Fentanyl 0.600 0.670 0.900 1.400 1.900 4.800 16.000
Acetyl Norfentanyl 0.036 0.034 0.019 0.044 0.160 1.400 18.000

PB, peripheral blood; HB, heart blood; – indicates specimen was not available for analysis; tissue distribution studies were not conducted on Cases 7, 9 and 10.

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