ArticleMaedica2014
Clinical or postmortem? The importance of the autopsy; a retrospective study.
Article in Maedica, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Usefulness of minimally invasive autopsy in the diagnosis of arboviruses to increase the sensitivity of the Epidemiological Surveillance System in Ceará, Brazil.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2024Article
- Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling via Post Mortem Ultrasound: A Feasible Tool (Not Only) in Infectious Diseases-A Case Report.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The trajectory of COVID-19 cardiopulmonary disease: insights from an autopsy study of community-based, pre-hospital deaths.ERJ open research · 2022Article
- Verbal Autopsy as a Tool for Defining Causes of Death in Specific Healthcare Contexts: Study of Applicability through a Traditional Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- A Comprehensive Review of Pathological Examination in Forensic Medicine: Past, Present, and Future.Cureus · 2022Review
- Mors Gaudet Succurrere Vitae. The Role of Clinical Autopsy in Preventing Litigation Related to the Management of Liver and Digestive Disorders.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Minimally Invasive Autopsy Practice in COVID-19 Cases: Biosafety and Findings.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Role of the Pathologist in the Next-Generation Era of Tumor Molecular Characterization.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Pulmonary pathology and COVID-19: lessons from autopsy. The experience of European Pulmonary Pathologists.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2020Review
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- Reliability of police reports when assessing health information at the forensic post-mortem examination-using schizophrenia as a model.International journal of legal medicine · 2020Article
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- Detection of critical antibiotic resistance genes through routine microbiome surveillance.PloS one · 2019Article
- Coinfections and comorbidities in African health systems: At the interface of infectious and noninfectious diseases.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Review
- Automatic ICD-10 multi-class classification of cause of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Medicine is continually evolving; the new technologies of diagnosis and treatment continue to improve the life expectancy and lead to new information concerning various pathologies. The autopsy is viewed more and more as an ultimate branch of medicine and used only in extreme cases or for forensic purposes. Nevertheless, many studies, including this one, prove the utility and indispensability of the autopsies, without which a complete and accurate diagnosis cannot be made. Finally, the autopsy followed by histopathological examination of the tissues remains the ultimate and most important step for the apprehension of the diseases and for further evolution of medicine. This study reveals the correspondence rate between the clinical and the postmortem diagnosis, as well as between macroscopic and histopathological diagnosis.
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