منابع مشابه
Perinatal autopsy, techniques, and classifications
The value of the perinatal autopsy The perinatal autopsy can provide important information to the family, the clinician, and society [1–3]. When the parents give their consent for a post mortem examination on their baby, they are hoping to know why and how their baby died. It is quite reassuring to the parents to know that whatever has gone wrong, it did not happen because they did something wr...
متن کاملPerinatal autopsy--a six year study.
Manuscript received: July 28, 1997; Initial review completed: September 23, 1997; Revision accepted: January 1, 1998 correction of antemortem diagnoses; reassurance of family members when the specific cause of death becomes certain; and discovery of hereditary disorders, allowing genetic counselling and prophylaxis. It may help pediatricians to reduce perinatal mortality in future cases. The pr...
متن کاملPostmortem CT and Autopsy in Perinatal Intracranial Hemorrhage
To improve interpretation of intracranial computed tomographic findings in vivo, postmortem computed tomography was correlated directly with autopsy findings in 105 specimens of human stillborn and live-birth infants, ranging in age from gestational week 13 to postnatal month 18. This study identifies the typical computed tomographic appearance of intradural and other hemorrhages, attempts to c...
متن کاملThe perinatal autopsy: pertinent issues in multicultural Western Europe.
Western Europe is in a demographic transition with increasing multicultural societies. Health professionals have to understand the background, religious and cultural aspects of parents to counsel them regarding an autopsy in the event of a perinatal loss. Autopsy rates have declined over the past decades, the major limiting factor being the granting of permission for an autopsy, possibly becaus...
متن کاملMy approach to performing a perinatal or neonatal autopsy.
An opportunity to determine the cause of death, factors that may have a role in it, and the extent and cause of malformations is provided by perinatal autopsy. The family may be assisted in finding closure after the death of their infant by the information obtained. Insight into classifying infants appearing normal into one of three groups, small, appropriate and large for gestational age, has ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.38.11.1319-b