[Clinician-oriented and cytology-oriented autopsy. Part II. Hepato-biliary system]

The autopsy is performed with multiple purposes. The first purpose of the autopsy is a service for clinicians. The dissection technic should be determined to present the best clinical-pathological correlation of the lesions. Imprint (touch preparation) from the organ is most useful to make initial pathological diagnoses during autopsy examination. This preparation provides not only oncologic data (tumor identification), but also the presence of infections. Numerous photographs illustrate both the gross pathological lesions and infections of the hepato-biliary system.