My approach to performing a perinatal or neonatal autopsy

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 673-680

  Wainwright, Helen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; BONE DYSPLASIA; BONE INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FAMILY; FETUS HYDROPS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA; SHORT STATURE; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ULTRASOUND; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ABNORMALITIES; ALGORITHMS; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFECTION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33745906553     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2005.034504     Document Type: Review

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