ABSTRACT: In this study, an outbreak of spontaneous poisoning by Dodonaea viscosa (D. viscosa) in a herd dairy cattle the municipality Capão do Leão, Rio Grande Sul, was investigated. Three deaths occurred batch 16 Jersey cattle, aged between three and four years, kept native field. The clinical signs observed were apathy, decreased production, anorexia, with death occurring within approximatel...

This case study of generalized miliary tuberculosis in a Brazilian man without AIDS is reported in order to emphasize the role of histopathological study for diagnosis. We comment on a recent Indian study involving 40 cases of surgical and necropsy specimens in which the diagnosis of tuberculosis was made, as well as a previous Brazilian case report. The authors believe that non-specialists sho...

regulatory protein expression in adult soft tissue sarcomas. A sensitive and specific marker of skeletal muscle differentiation.typic sarcomas with myogenic and neural differentiation express the Ewing's sarcoma EWS/FLI1 fusion gene. The coroner's necropsy is suited to classic epidemiological studies, not only for those conditions leading to death but also for coincident disease. In the general...

The lungs of 482 liveborn infants were examined at necropsy for the presence of intravascular lipid. Forty one patients had received parenteral feeding (including lipid emulsion in 30), and 441 had died before starting feeds or had received enteral feeds alone. Tissue was processed into wax and then stained with Sudan black; intravascular lipid was found in 15 of 30 infants who had received int...

The literature suggests that there are grounds for suspecting that the necropsy room might be a centre for the dissemination of tuberculosis. Hedvall (1940) discussed the incidence of tuberculosis among students at Lund University, and found that it was significantly greater among medical students than among those of other faculties, and that a high proportion of the cases appeared to coincide ...

The necropsy rate in the United Birmingham Hospital has fallen from 74-4% in 1958 to 46-0% in 1972. In the Birmingham region as a whole the rate is 27-3%, approximately equal to the national rate. Most clinicians in the group who replied to a standard questionary considered that the necropsy still has an important part to play in their own practice and in undergraduate training, and they viewed...

One adult and one childhood case of concealed homicide by strangulation are presented. Both cases were first recognised on formal neck dissection at necropsy. Neither showed any obvious external trauma to the neck or laryngeal fracture. External petechiae were absent in the child. The pattern of internal injuries in both cases suggested that the likely mechanism was strangulation. Particular ca...