[Current problems of the differential diagnosis between live birth and stillbirth]

Data of the literature concerning of the livebirth and still-birth are reviewed. Pulmonal fluid formation in human lately has been prooved. At intrauterine asphyxia CO2 is deliberated causing distension of the alveoli and respiratory bronchioli. These changes have to be taken into consideration at evaluation of histological findings in the lung of newborn. Results of the newer observations can not yet be used for the differential diagnosis of live-birth and still-birth, since the validity of them is not yet prooved by practice.