AUTOPSY PRACTICES
AUTOPSY PRACTICES
Second Edition
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Autopsy Practices / Dhaneshwar Lanjewar, Pradeep Vaideeswar
First Edition: 2017
Second Edition: 2021
9789389587043
Printed at
- Anjali D Amarapurkar MD
- Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Lokmanya Tilak Memorial Medical
- College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Arvind Valand MD
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pathology
- Vedantaa Institute of Medical Sciences
- Dahanu, Maharashtra, India
- Ashim Das MD
- Professor
- Department of Histopathology
- Postgraduate Institute of
- Medical Education and Research
- Chandigarh, India
- Bhuvaneshwari Kandalkar MD
- Senior Consultant - Pathology
- Naryana Health
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Bishan Radotra MD
- Professor and Head
- Department of Histopathology
- Postgraduate Institute of
- Medical Education and Research
- Chandigarh, India
- Daksha Prabhat MD
- Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Deepak S Joshi MD
- Professor and Head
- Department of Anatomy
- Grant Government Medical College Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Dhaneshwar Lanjewar MD
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pathology
- Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences
- Bhuj, Gujarat, India
- Gayathri Amonkar MD
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Topiwala National Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Jaya Deshpande MD
- Former Professor and Head
- Department of Pathology
- Topiwala National Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Kusum Jashnani MD
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pathology
- Topiwala National Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Pradeep Vaideeswar MD
- Additional Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Pragati Sathe MD
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Late Ratnaprabha Ghodke MD
- Former Assistant Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Saranya Singaravel MD
- Consultant Pathologist
- Soleil Diagnostics
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Saroj Bolde MD
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Grant Government Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Shailesh Mohite MD
- Professor and Head
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- Topiwala National Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Shubhangi Agale MD
- Academic Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Grant Government Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Smita Divate MD
- Additional Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Subhash Yadav MD
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Vinaya Shah MD
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pathology
- Hindu Hruday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
In the 3.5 years since the first edition of this book was published, we have received numerous messages from readers commenting on the book and suggesting how it could be improved. We have also built up a large file of ideas based on our own experiences in reading, writing, and editing. With the aid of all this information we have revised the book. The second edition represents revision of the chapters in the first edition and a substantial enlargement through the addition of one new chapter.
Most obvious changes in this second edition are: Chapter 1 (Introduction and History) is revised and modified; Chapter 5G (Examination of the Hemolymphatic System) is revised and expanded; Chapter 7 (Autopsy and Law) and Chapter 11 (Embalming) are also revised. A new Chapter (Chapter 12: Autopsy Guidelines in COVID-2019) has been added. In the Appendix, six additional cases of Clinico-pathological conference are added.
We intend for this work to be comprehensive and helpful for those dealing with clinical and medico-legal autopsies and hope that this book will be useful to Pathology residents, Pathologists, and Forensic medicine specialists.
Dhaneshwar Lanjewar
Pradeep Vaideeswar
Preface to First Edition
The traditionally recognized contributions of the autopsy such as its role in defining new disease entities, in the quality control of patient care and in determining the cause of death, are just as relevant today as in the past. The progress of pathology in India began in 1840, and in those days, the roots of development of pathology in India were in the premier institutes. Significant contributions on neuropathology, cardiovascular and pulmonary pathology, and AIDS pathology were made from medical colleges in Mumbai; this work is known throughout the globe.
Currently, there is no autopsy book authored by Indian pathologists describing procedural details of performing autopsy. Autopsy Practices is a contribution by several pathologists from Mumbai and Chandigarh, and each author has performed and/or observed several thousand clinical autopsies. All the topics are written in conventional pattern and each topic is designed to offer practical guidelines that will lead pathologists to identify, interpret and correlate the autopsy findings. In addition, a topic on “Autopsy and Law” will be useful for the postgraduates in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology.
It is hoped that this first edition with its emphasis on practical procedures will be of assistance to the pathologists of developing and developed countries.
Dhaneshwar Lanjewar
Pradeep Vaideeswar
Acknowledgments
Many people have sent us extensive comments and corrections since the appearance of the first edition in 2017. To all of them, including in particular to Dr Shashank Tyagi, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai.
Dhaneshwar Lanjewar
Pradeep Vaideeswar