Endoscopic Examination in Postmortem Examination

Postmortem Examination

Regardless of the suspected cause of death, a medical examiner or coroner's postmortem examination should always be thorough and comprehensive, for deaths which come under the jurisdiction of this office are often extremely complex, dealing as they do mostly with instances of sudden and unexpected demise. The postmortem examination should be approached with a certain degree of suspicion of ot.h...

Origins of .... the postmortem examination in diagnosis.

"you may take notes for twenty years, from morning to night at the bedside of the sick, upon the diseases of the viscera, and all will be to you only a confusion of symptoms,-a train of incoherent phenomena. Open a few bodies, this obscurity will disappear." Bichat (c 1800)' Rituals related to the disposal of the dead date back to prehistoric times. They arose from religious beliefs and from a ...

Endoscopic examination for pancreatic fistula.

We have conducted endoscopic examination in 5 cases of postoperative pancreatic fistula, and discuss its clinical significance. The examination provided not only an observation of the fistula but also opportunity to irrigate the fistula for removal of foreign substances. The biopsy permitted histological examination for necrotic substances and the fistulous wall. Endoscopy made it easy to intro...

The postmortem examination in cases of suspected homicide.

Cauda equina lymphoma: a case report including postmortem examination.

While primary central nervous system (CNS) lympho­ mas are rare, aggressive B­cell lymphomas may second­ arily involve the CNS in up to 25% of patients with risk factors, particularly multiple extranodal sites of dis ease.1,2 B­cell lymphomas very rarely present solely with lumbosacral neurologic signs consistent with cauda equina syndrome. Detection of lymphoma with CNS involvement can be diff...