REVIEW ARTICLE
Recommendations of the Polish Association of Neuropathologists on performing post-mortem examination of the brain and spinal cord
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Department of Pathomorphology and Forensic Medicine, Collegium Medicum University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Department of Neurochemistry and Neuropathology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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Department of Pathomorphology, Jagiellonian Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
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Division of Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Department of Descriptive and Clinical Anatomy, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Department of Pathomorphology, Children’s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Submission date: 2023-03-06
Final revision date: 2023-03-21
Acceptance date: 2023-03-22
Publication date: 2023-04-28
Corresponding author
Ewa Iżycka-Świeszewska
Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Gdansk, Department of Pathomorphology, Copernicus Hospitals, 1–6 Nowe Ogrody St., 80-803 Gdansk, Poland
Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Gdansk, Department of Pathomorphology, Copernicus Hospitals, 1–6 Nowe Ogrody St., 80-803 Gdansk, Poland
Pol J Pathol 2023;74(1):1-11
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ABSTRACT
Neuropathological central nervous system (CNS) post-mortem examination is a highly specialistic element of the autopsy procedure with methodological specificity. Herein we propose updated recommendations for CNS autopsy for pathologists and neuropathologists. The protocol includes the compendium of neuroanatomy with current nomenclature, consecutive steps of gross examination, as well as appropriate sampling algorithms in different clinical and pathological settings. The significance of pathoclinical cooperation in differential diagnosis is exposed.
We believe it is essential to create and promote the guidelines to improve the quality of CNS post-mortem examination at the national level.
We believe it is essential to create and promote the guidelines to improve the quality of CNS post-mortem examination at the national level.
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