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Pathology of the stillborn infant for the general pathologist: part 1
Debra S Heller1, Ona M Faye-Petersen
1*Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark NJ †Department of Pathology, Division of Anatomic Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Abstract:
As the information obtained from previable fetal and stillbirth autopsies is used not only to explain the loss to the parents, but for future pregnancy planning, general pathologists need to be comfortable in dealing with these autopsies. The importance of an adequate fetal examination has been emphasized in a recent policy on the subject by the American Board of Pathology http://www.abpath.org/FetalAutopsyPolicy.pdf. This review paper covers the approach to the fetal and stillbirth autopsy. This first article covers the approach to the nonanomalous and anomalous autopsy. Hydrops fetalis will be covered in the second part of this series to be published subsequently.
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