title: A statistical analysis of computerized pathologic autopsy data in Japan from 1974 through 1993. The Information Management Committee of the Japanese Society of Pathology.
abstract: A computerized nationwide autopsy database was analyzed to assess the main pathologic diagnoses and primary sites of malignancies in Japan from 1974 to 1993. The data contained more than 689,000 cases, which corresponds to about 5.0% of deaths in Japan during that time. Cases were analyzed in four 5-year periods. The distribution of the diseases and tumor primary sites for age and sex was listed. The histologic types of pulmonary and gastric malignancies and the frequencies of primary sites in brain metastases were used as examples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aizawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukushima
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001344:Autopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007256:Information Systems; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality