ArticleJournal of pathology informatics2018
Virtual Autopsy as a Screening Test Before Traditional Autopsy: The Verona Experience on 25 Cases.
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- Advancements in pathology: Digital transformation, precision medicine, and beyond.Journal of pathology informatics · 2025Review
- Performance of postmortem CT in the diagnosis of natural death from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.Japanese journal of radiology · 2024Article
- A Virtual, 3D Multimodal Approach to Victim and Crime Scene Reconstruction.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Comparison of findings identified at traditional invasive autopsy and postmortem computed tomography in suicidal hangings.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
- Forensic imaging: a powerful tool in modern forensic investigation.Forensic sciences research · 2022Review
- Advances in forensic diagnosis of electric shock death in the absence of typical electrical marks.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Review
- Alternatives to vivisection: Scanning technologies replace and complement invasive autopsies.EMBO reports · 2019Article
- Virtual Autopsy in Medicolegal Investigations: A Systematic Review of Accuracy and Practical Utility.International journal of applied & basic medical researchReview
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14 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundInterest has grown into the use of multidetector computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging as an adjunct or alternative to the invasive autopsy. We sought to investigate these possibilities in postmortem CT scan using an innovative virtual autopsy approach.
methodsTwenty-five postmortem cases were scanned with the Philips Brilliance CT-64 and then underwent traditional autopsy. The images were interpreted by two blinded forensic pathologists assisted by a radiologist with the INFOPSY
resultsThe causes of death at traditional autopsies were hemorrhage due to traumatic injuries (
conclusionsOur experience supports the use of virtual autopsy in postmortem investigations as an alternative diagnostic practice and does suggest a potential role as a screening test among traumatic deaths.
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