• Despite the relevant information that postmortem examinations can provide, autopsy rates have been declining worldwide in the last few decades. • Autopsies are especially necessary in low-income countries, where reliable information on cause of death is much more limited and in vivo clinical diagnosis is hampered by the scarce availability of diagnostic tools. • The use of the autopsy or of r...

The 1990s 12-16% total autopsy rate in Denmark has until now declined to 4%, while in Finland, it has remained between 25 and 30%. The decision to proceed with a forensic autopsy is based on national legislation, but it can be assumed that the financing of autopsies influences the decision process. Only little is known about the possible differences between health economics of Finnish and Danis...

The personnel involved in the management of COVID-19 affected dead bodies, including law enforcement at scene crime, transportation forensic practitioners, autopsy pathologists, mortuary personnel, as well family members dead, etc. are risk exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Post-mortem examination is a high-risk procedure, considering that it involves aerosol generating procedures, and body flu...

Nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism is an uncommon life-threatening complication following liposuction. We report a rare incidental autopsy finding associated with this procedure. A 43-year-old female who underwent liposuction presented hypotension, respiratory distress, loss of consciousness and cardiorespiratory arrest during the intraoperative period. The patient died 2 h after admission to eme...

The frequency of lethal stroke was examined over a 20-year period in a large collection of autopsy material and was compared with the official mortality statistics for the same period. The frequency of lethal stroke in the autopsy material was calculated as a percentage of the total number of autopsied patients in the corresponding age groups. The frequency of strokes found in mortality statist...

descriptions of traditional therapeutic devices which clutter most other textbooks of medicine are wisely omitted in favor of concise directions in the light of modern therapeusis. Where indicated, thoroughness is not sacrificed to brevity-as for example, in the section on treatment of diphtheria the technic of tracheal intubation is described in detail. This reviewer suspects that, with the gr...