Main description:

Contains thorough explanations and descriptions
Offers clear informative diagrams and photographs
Aimed at pathologists in training, medical students, and mortuary technicians

Thoroughly revised 2nd edition includes the most recent guidance to an accurate mortem diagnosis from the Royal College of Pathologists and from the College of American Pathologists

Contents:

Foreword to the 1st edition Foreword to the 2nd edition Preface to the 1st edition Preface to the 2nd edition 1. Before the post mortem 2. General inspection and initial stages of evisceration 3. Evisceration techniques 4. Block dissection 5. Organ dissection - cardiovascular system 6. Organ dissection - respiratory system 7. Organ dissection - gastrointestinal system 8. Organ dissection - genitourinary system 10. Organ dissection - haematopoietic and lymphoreticular systems 11. Organ dissection - musculoskeletal system 12. Organ dissection - nervous System 13. After dissection 14. Fetal, perinatal and infant autopsies Bibliography and websites Appendix 1 List of cases to refer to Coroner Appendix 2 Weights and measures table Index