title: Needle autopsy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Núcleo de Medicina Tropical e Nutricão/UnB, Brasília, DF, Brasil.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Marsden
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles