Pathologist faces GMC hearing over altered autopsy report

Autopsy Practice in Ghana - Reflections of a Pathologist.

Autopsy practice in Ghana can be said to be far from satisfactory. Most Ghanaians do not know that there are different categories of death, which categories of death require an autopsy and who is required to perform the autopsy. The problems have further been complicated by the fact that, unlike other countries where separate facilities are available for storage of the different categories of d...

Congenital hyperthyroidism: autopsy report.

We report the autopsy of a stillborn fetus with congenital hyperthyroidism born to a mother with untreated Graves' disease, whose cause of death was congestive heart failure. The major findings concerned the skull, thyroid, heart, and placenta. The cranial sutures were closed, with overlapping skull bones. The thyroid was increased in volume and had intense blood congestion. Histological examin...

Hearing faces Running head : Hearing faces Hearing faces : How the infant brain matches the face it sees with the speech it hears

INSERM, U562, Neurospin, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK AP-HP, service de Neurologie Pédiatrique, CHU Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France 4 IFR49, Neurospin, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France 5 CNRS, LENA, CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France 6 CEA, UNAF, Neurospin, 91191 Gif/Yv...

Diaphragmatic Eventration: Autopsy Case Report.

Presented case was a 36-year-old deceased man with a sequel of poliomyelitis who was reportedly found death at home. On external examination at autopsy, deformity of the lower extremity secondary to polimyelitis, and an obliquely coursing scar tissue 5 cm in length at the same level with the costal arch on the right axillary line were seen. On internal examination at autopsy, diaphragmatic even...

Southall: the GMC responds.