title: Approaches to the demonstration of congenital heart disease.
abstract: Advances in antenatal screening techniques have increased the interest in obtaining a detailed pathological correlation with the ultrasonographic findings obtained before death. As a consequence, inadequacies in traditional methods used by pathologists to display congenital malformations have been brought to light. We describe a simple technique of inflation and wax impregnation for the permanent proof of congenital heart defects that can be used in routine perinatal necropsies.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000473:pathology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D006652:Histological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010477:Perfusion; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000473:pathology; D014885:Waxes
chemical_list: D014885:Waxes