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Autopsy after death due to extreme prematurity
1Department of Paediatrics, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Science, Otago University, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand. delder@wnmeds.ac.nz
Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
|April 23, 2005
Abstract:
Autopsy reports for 29 very preterm infants dying at <28 days of age were reviewed. New findings were discovered in 79% and resulted in a significant change in diagnoses in 28%. Iatrogenic lesions were identified in 41% of cases and were the main cause of death in 14%.
