title: [The autopsy: its importance for modern clinical medicine].
abstract: Autopsies are absolutely necessary for the progress of modern clinical medicine and for solving many problems: diagnostic, control of treatment quality, detection of infectious, hereditary and systemic diseases, establishing causes and mechanisms of sudden death, qualification of unclear diseases and syndromes, classification and nomenclature of nosological entities, detection and study of spontaneous and induced pathomorphosis. The pathologist performing autopsies should except necropsy also make macrochemical examination and send the material for microbiological and biochemical examination. Special attention should be paid to establishing the diagnosis and clinicoanatomical epicrisis. Undoubtful is the role of autopsy in teaching and training, postgraduate education, accumulation of archives and their retrospective analysis, creation of macro- and micromuseums of human diseases. Physician's errors, general requirements and cadaveric tissue observation are also discussed.
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Zerbino
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods; D002102:Cadaver; D003933:Diagnosis; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine
vernacular_title: Autopsiia: znachenie dlia sovremennoĭ kliniki.