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01-10-2021 | Autopsy | Commentary

Postmodernism and the decline of the clinical autopsy

Authors: Marco Dell’Aquila, Giuseppe Vetrugno, Simone Grassi, Egidio Stigliano, Antonio Oliva, Guido Rindi, Vincenzo Arena

Published in: Virchows Archiv | Issue 4/2021

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Clinical autopsy is in decline, and its rates have been falling all over the world in the last decades, with important implications on medical education [1]. Several explanations have been proposed: The most prominent sees a lack of interest from clinicians that think the autopsy can add little or nothing to what is already known from imaging and diagnostic techniques. …

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Title: Postmodernism and the decline of the clinical autopsy
Authors: Marco Dell’Aquila
Giuseppe Vetrugno
Simone Grassi
Egidio Stigliano
Antonio Oliva
Guido Rindi
Vincenzo Arena
Publication date: 01-10-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Autopsy
Published in: Virchows Archiv / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0945-6317
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-021-03166-7

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