Needle autopsy to establish the cause of death in HIV-infected hospitalized adults in Uganda: A comparison to complete autopsy

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-176

  Cox, Janneke A ^a,b   Lukande, Robert L ^c   Kalungi, Sam ^c,d   Van Marck, Eric ^e   Van De Vijver, Koen ^f   Kambugu, Andrew ^b   Nelson, Ann M ^g   Manabe, Yukari C ^b,h   Colebunders, Robert ^a,i  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^e ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^g JOINT PATHOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

(needle) autopsy; Biopsy; HIV; Mortality; Postmortem; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANDIDIASIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLETE AUTOPSY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; PATHOLOGIST; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SAMPLING ERROR; SARCOMA; SEPSIS; SOLID TUMOR; SPLEEN DISEASE; SYPHILIS; THROMBOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA; ULTRASOUND GUIDED NEEDLE AUTOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; UGANDA;

EID: 84922322470     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000290     Document Type: Article

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