[Clinician-oriented and cytology-oriented autopsy, Part I. Respiratory system]

The autopsy is performed with multiple purposes. It is felt that the first purpose of the autopsy is a service for clinicians. Dissection technic should be determined to present the best clinical pathological correlation of the lesions. Touch preparation (imprint) from the organs is most useful to establish initial pathological diagnoses during autopsy examination. This provides not only oncologic data (identification of tumors), but also the presence of infectious complications such as opportunistic organisms. Multiple photographs illustrate both the gross pathological lesions and infections, demonstrated by the imprints of the respiratory system.