title: Quality of corrosion specimens prepared from material obtained during autopsies - a preliminary study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Aim of this study was to assess the quality of the corrosion specimens obtained during autopsies of human body for scanning electron microscopy procedures.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety seven uteri were obtained upon autopsy of women aged 25-56 years, deceased due to causes not related to disorders of the reproductive system. Fourty three of them contained large subserosal uterine leiomyomata. twenty uteri were injected with acrylic emulsion Liquitex R via the arteries or veins. Five of these uteri were next dissected and cut into slides on a microtom. the remaining uteri were injected with 60-80 ml of mercox CL-2r resin, next macerated and studied under scanning electron microscope (JEOL SEM 35-CF scanning electron microscope at 20-25 kV).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Best human specimens were obtained from the autopsies carried out possibly early after the deceased, young aged (between 25 and 45) and died because of multitrauma not associated with the pelvic injury.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Specimens obtained from autopsies can be used for scanning electron microscopy however under several conditions, specially the time between death and undertaking the injection procedures and the age of the individual, because of the process of artherosclerosis.
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bereza
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tomaszewski
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Skrzat
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Wieslawa
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Klimek-Piotrowska
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Mateusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sporek
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mizia
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Department of Histology, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lis
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anatomy, Jagiellonian university Medical College, Krakow, Poland. artur.pasternak@uj.edu.pl.
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pasternak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods*; D016319:Corrosion Casting / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008875:Middle Aged; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000379:methods*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D055815:Young Adult