Needle autopsy.
Often in tropical practice there is not time or conditions to do a proper autopsy on a patient who has died. A needle biopsy technique is described for limited closed autopsy examination to clarify organ histology. In this way the clinician may resolve puzzling fatal disease.
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Núcleo de Medicina Tropical e Nutricão/UnB, Brasília, DF, Brasil.
D001344:Autopsy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles