Why Should Clinical Autopsies Continue to Exist?

Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Aug 16;11(8):1482. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11081482.

¹ Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14049-900, SP, Brazil.
² Centro di Ricerca Lino Rossi, Anatomic Pathology MED-08, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milan, Italy.
³ Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK.
⁴ Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Women's Health Reference Center of Ribeirão Preto (MATER), Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14090-900, SP, Brazil.
⁵ Health Organization Management, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14049-900, SP, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi 24220-900, RJ, Brazil.

Abstract

At some point in history, medicine was integrated with pathology, more precisely, with pathological anatomy [...].