BACKGROUND Medicine assumes that vital statistics are accurate, but they are only as good as the death certificates. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of death certificates in reporting vital statistics with an emphasis on cardiac deaths. DESIGN A population-based retrospective study within one community hospital. PATIENTS During the study period, 1,619 patients expired during hospitaliz...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been proposed that patients with Marfan syndrome have an increased prevalence of intracranial aneurysms. This proposition is based on 10 clinical reports, 1 pathology case, and an autopsy series of 7 patients. By contrast, 5 clinical series of Marfan patients have failed to document any such relationship. We present our institution's autopsy and clinical experience...

Penggunaan smartphone di Indonesia tidak hanya digunakan sebagai alat untuk komunikasi, akan tetapi dengan hadirnya aplikasi dompet digital maka mulai pula bertransaksi. Proses forensik pada penelitian ini dilakukan empat yang ada mengikuti metode Digital Forensik Research Workshop (DFRWS) memiliki beberapa tahapan yaitu identification, preservation, collection, examination, analysis, dan prese...

this paper is a statistical and analytical review of endocrine glands disorders, seen in the department of pathology, tehran university medical school, and is based on approximately 40,000 surgical specimens and 2,500 autopsy cases. of 42,500 combined routine surgical and autopsy cases reviewed, we had 2,556 cases of endocrine disorders of which there: thyroid 1,125 cases, ovary 970, testis 268...

Background: Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma is a rare, extranodal characterised by intravascular growth of malignant mature population, primarily affecting capillaries. Pre-mortem diagnosis can be challenging as patients often present with non-specific clinical findings including fever unknown origin, decreased general condition and neurological abnormalities. Radiological may or falsely ne...

The autopsy rate has been declining worldwide for decades. This study determined the overall and differential autopsy rates for the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast for the years 1997-1999 inclusive. Trends were examined by comparison with previously collected data for the years 1990, 1991 and 1993. Reasons for the decline in autopsy rates as perceived by hospital clinicians were assessed by me...