Euthanasia through overdose with barbiturates often creates necropsy artefacts, consisting of rough whitish punctuation. These are readily visible in this heart of a male, 13-year-old Great Dane, euthanized with an intra-cardiac injection of barbiturates.

 


 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
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