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The autopsy is not dead: ongoing relevance of the autopsy

Autopsy Case Reports, 2023
Autopsy requests have been trending downward for a variety of factors. There are differences between pre- and postmortem diagnoses. Autopsies remain a tool for education, public health research, quality control, and closure for families.We report two cases that illustrate the utility of autopsy for uncovering contributing factors in the death of these ...
Alexia Vignau, Clara Milikowski
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The conscientious autopsy [PDF]

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2019
Alex K Williamson
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Clinical Autopsy vs Medicolegal Autopsy [PDF]

Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2005
Post mortem examination of a dead body is carried out to gain insight into the disease process as well as for forensic application of medical knowledge. Although different specialists viz; pathologists and forensic medicine experts, carry out autopsy for these two purposes, on many occasions there may be overlap of these two fields of medicine.
R B, Kotabagi, S C, Charati, D, Jayachandar   +2 more
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Generic versus Single-Case Causality: The Case of Autopsy [PDF]

, 2009
This paper addresses questions about how the levels of causality (generic and single-case causality) are related. One question is epistemological: can relationships at one level be evidence for relationships at the other level?
Russo, Frederica, Russo, Federica, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson, WILLIAMSON J., Williamson, Jon   +5 more
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Verbal autopsy can consistently measure AIDS mortality: a validation study in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy is currently the only option for obtaining cause of death information in most populations with a widespread HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Zaba, B, Boerma, T, Urassa, M, Gregson, S, Chawira, G, Isingo, R, Ruwende, J, Ndege, M, Lopman, B, Smith, J, Cook, A, Kumogola, Y, Ihekweazu, C   +12 more
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Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Verbal autopsy methods are critically important for evaluating the leading causes of death in populations without adequate vital registration systems.
Baqui, Abdullah, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Gómez Sara, Romero, M., Bruce Neal, Lucero, M, Ramírez-Villalobos Dolores, Ahuja Ramesh, Gómez, S, Ali Said, Christopher JL Murray, Romero, M, Lozano, Rafael, Baqui Abdullah, Joshi, R., Hernández, B, Marilla Lucero, Murray, Christopher Jl, Premji, Z., Dhingra, U, Riley, Ian, Flaxman, AD, Gomez, Sara, Premji, Zul, Mehta, S., Riley, I., Neal, B., Sara Gómez, Henry Kalter, Rajendra Prasad, Dantzer, Emily, Dandona, L., Ahuja, R, Hazel Remolador, Black, R., Dhingra, U., Neal, Bruce, Remolador Hazel, Flaxman, Abraham D., Praveen, Devarsetty, Das, Vinita, Tallo, V., Bernardo Hernández, Sanvictores, D., Tallo, Veronica, Lopez Alan D, Romero Minerva, Murray, C.J.L., Dutta, A, Sanvictores, D, Dhingra, Usha, Ramirez-Villalobos, D., Baqui, A, Premji, Z, Dhingra Usha, Praveen Devarsetty, Dutta, Arup, Ramirez-Villalobos, Dolores, Gomez, S., Prasad, R., Wafaie Fawzi, Zul Premji, Ohno, S.L., Lozano, R, Alan D Lopez, Dandona Lalit, Black, R, Mehta, Saurabh, Vishwajeet Kumar, Saurabh Mehta, Dandona, L, Arup Dutta, Dantzer Emily, Diozele Sanvictores, Tallo Veronica, Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos, Lucero Marilla, Murray Christopher JL, Dantzer, E, Fawzi, Wafaie, Remolador, H., Sazawal Sunil, Emily Dantzer, Sanvictores Diozele, Hernandez, B., Mehta Saurabh, Tallo, V, Sazawal, S, Romero, Minerva, Kumar Aarti, Rohina Joshi, Kumar, V., Said, M., Said Mwanaidi, Ramesh Ahuja, Riley Ian, Kumar, A, Mwanaidi Said, Ramírez-Villalobos, D, Das, Vanita, Lucero, M., Neal Bruce, Kalter Henry, Fawzi Wafaie, Said, Mwanaidi, Said, M, Aarti Kumar, Das, V., Prasad Rajendra, Baqui, A., Fawzi, W, Prasad, R, Praveen, D, Remolador, Hazel, Ali, S.M., Sazawal, S., Kumar Vishwajeet, Black Robert, Ohno, SL, Ali, Said Mohd, Lopez, Alan D., Hernandez, Bernardo, Dutta Arup, Lozano, R., Ohno Summer, Ahuja, R., Mehta, S, Usha Dhingra, Das, V, Flaxman, A.D., Said Mohd Ali, Das Vinita, Lucero, Marilla, Praveen, D., Neal, B, Joshi Rohina, Dandona, Lalit, Ahuja, Ramesh, Joshi, Rohina, Kumar, A., Ohno, Summer I., Flaxman, Abraham D, Fawzi, W., Minerva Romero, Ali, SM, Dantzer, E., Lalit Dandona, Ramírez-Villalobos10, D., Vinita Das, Remolador, H, Dutta, A., Veronica Tallo, Robert Black, Ohno, Summer Lockett, Premji Zul, Rafael Lozano, Abdullah Baqui, Murray, CJL, Prasad, Rajendra, Joshi, R, Hernández Bernardo, Black, Robert, Sanvictores, Diozele, Lopez, Alan D, Lozano Rafael, Kumar, Aarti, Sazawal, Sunil, Summer Lockett Ohno, Lopez, AD, Flaxman Abraham D, Ian Riley, Riley, I, Murray, Christopher J. L., Devarsetty Praveen, Kumar, V, Abraham D Flaxman, Kalter, Henry, Sunil Sazawal, Ali, Said M., Kalter, H, Kalter, H., Lopez, A.D.   +181 more
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Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced.
Yusuf Hemed, Alan D Lopez, Whiting, DR, Daniel Chandramohan, Rao, Chalapati, Whiting, David R, Setel, Philip W, Yang Gonghuan, Yang, Gonghuan, Hemed, Yusuf, K G M M Alberti, Hemed, Y, Philip W Setel, Alberti K. G. M. M, Hemed Yusuf, Yang, G, Setel, PW, Alberti, K. G. M. M., Chandramohan Daniel, Rao Chalapati, Setel Philip W, Whiting David R, Lopez, Alan D, Gonghuan Yang, Chalapati Rao, Lopez, AD, Alberti, KGMM, Lopez, Alan D., David R Whiting, Chandramohan, D, Chandramohan, Daniel, Lopez Alan D, Setel, Philip W., Rao, C, Whiting, David R., Alberti, K. G. M. M   +35 more
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Heroin Body Packer’s Death in Shiraz, Iran; a Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2017
Background: Intra-corporeal concealment of illicit drugs known as ‘body packing’ is uncommonly reported. These drugs mainly comprise opium, heroin, cocaine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), amphetamines, and marijuana or hashish. Body packers
Nahid Najafi, Mahmoud Montazeri
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Fetal Autopsy: Improving Clinicians’ Knowledge to Increase Parents’ Acceptance. A Prospective Questionnaire-Based Study

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022
Background: Knowing the cause of stillbirth is of paramount importance for bereaved parents and fetal autopsy is one of the key investigations aimed at providing explanation about the fetal death.
Laura Avagliano, Elisa Martini, Monica Antuono, Gaetano Bulfamante   +3 more
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Intestinal Metaplasia of Antral Superficial-foveolar Epithelium in Children with Atrophic Gastritis

Journal of Pediatric Research, 2017
Aim: Chronic gastritis (CG), being one of the most common digestive diseases, is frequently underestimated both by patients and clinicians. However, CG developed as early as in childhood, and often accompanied by Helicobacter pylori contamination of ...
Natalia Yurievna Shirokova, Natalia Yurievna Orlinskaya, Diana Anatolyevna Davydova   +2 more
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