postmortem imaging
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Clinical significance
- 1/3 of postmortem imaging diagnoses have major discrepancies with autopsy diagnoses
- CT consistently with fewer diagnostic discrepancies from autopsy than MRI
- the most frequent imaging to autopsy discrepancies were both over & under diagnosis of
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References
- ↑ Roberts ISD et al. Post-mortem imaging as an alternative to autopsy in the diagnosis of adult deaths: A validation study. Lancet 2011 Nov 22 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22112684 <Internet> http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61483-9/fulltext