In this study, a case of pulmonary aspergillosis was described in 20-day-old suckling lamb. Lamb suffering from high fever, anorexia, weakness and balance disorder brought to the Department Pathology Kafkas University Faculty Veterinary Medicine for necropsy. According anamnesis obtained animal owner, an intense random drug treatment administered animal. Following systemic necropsy animal, vari...

The need for specialised forms of clinical audit was highlighted by the report of the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (CEPOD). Necropsy rates in a Northern Ireland teaching hospital were studied with particular reference to perioperative deaths. To provide an overall context for these observations, the pattern of the necropsy services in Northern Ireland as a whole was also deter...

The hearts of 291 babies with congenital heart disease who died before the age of one were examined systematically by sequential segmental analysis to determine the lesions that were present. There was an abnormal connection between the cardiac segments in one third of cases. Patient ductus arteriosus, which is usually a common defect, was not an important finding at necropsy, whereas common ar...

AIM To assess the agreement between clinical diagnosis of hyaline membrane disease (HMD) and lung necropsy pathological findings of deceased neonates. MATERIAL AND METHODS Review of clinical files and necropsy studies of 40 newborn infants ≤ 37 weeks gestational age. RESULTS The concordance between clinics and necropsy for the diagnosis of HMD was 43% (n = 17). At the necropsy study of the ...

AIM To demonstrate the role of cytopathology in examining tumours found at post mortem examination. METHODS Tumour deposits were found in 25 hospital necropsies. Cytological diagnosis made at the time of necropsy was compared with subsequent paraffin wax embedded histological sections. RESULTS In 19 out of 20 cases with no previous histological diagnosis, cytology at the time of necropsy pr...

Autopsy imaging (Ai), postmortem imaging before necropsy, is used in human forensic medicine. Ai was performed using computed tomography (CT) for a 1-month-old Thoroughbred foal cadaver found in a pasture. CT revealed pericardial effusion, collapse of the aorta, bleeding in the lung lobe, gas in the ventricles and liver parenchyma, and distension of the digestive tract. Rupture in the left auri...