Practice of percutaneous needle autopsy; a descriptive study reporting experiences from Uganda

BMC Clinical Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

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

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^d ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f JOINT PATHOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Minimal invasive autopsy; Needle autopsy; Needle biopsy; Partial autopsy; Post mortem; Sub Saharan Africa; Tru cut biopsy; Uganda; Ultra sound guided biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORE BIOPSY NEEDLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE GUIDED BIOPSY; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LEARNING CURVE; LIVER BIOPSY; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OPERATOR; PATHOLOGIST; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SPLEEN BIOPSY; TARGET ORGAN; UGANDA;

EID: 84924112024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6890-14-44     Document Type: Article

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