Guidelines for Reports by Autopsy Pathologists /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Totowa, NJ :
Humana Press : Imprint: Humana,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2008. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Part I. Autopsy protocol
- Purpose, structure, and organization
- Purpose
- Structure
- Organization
- Measurements
- Diagnostic terms
- External Examination
- Inventory of parts
- Clothing and surface evidence
- Identifying Features
- Signs of death
- Organization of external findings
- Therapy
- Organ and tissue dnation
- Wounds by type
- General organization
- Outside-in
- Paragraphs
- Impact wounds
- Blade wounds
- Hanging
- Firearm wounds
- Burns and fire deaths
- Wounds by organ
- Measurements
- Bones: General
- Skull and Dura
- Ribs
- Long bones and pelvis
- Vertebrae
- Ligaments, joints and muscle
- Body cavities
- Aortic lacerations
- Heart
- Central nervous system
- Lungs
- Liver
- Spleen
- Internal examination
- Autopsy procedures
- Wounds, therapy, and donations
- Body cavities
- Heart and great vessels
- lungs
- Liver, bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas
- Reticuloendothelial system
- Genitourinary system
- Endocrine organs
- Digestive organs
- Musculoskeletal system
- Neck
- Head
- Tumors
- Part II. Opinion reports
- The logic of opinion formation
- Definitions of cause, mechanism, and manner
- Global approach
- Synthesis of mechanism, cause, and manner
- Competing diseases and injuries
- Degree of certainty
- Dignosis in tabular format
- Purpose
- Structure
- Diagnosis or finding?- What to include
- Cause of death as diagnosis
- Completeness and etiologic specificity
- Diagnosis in Narrative Format: The Summary and opinion report
- Purpose
- Structure
- History
- Autopsy Findings
- Opinions
- Part III. Other reports
- Ancillary laboratory reports
- Integration and investigation by pathologist
- Purpose
- Structure
- Case identification
- Background Information
- Environment
- Body
- Actions Taken
- Animal bones
- Purpose
- Structure
- Content
- Part IV. Style
- Construction
- Sentences
- Paragraphs
- Abbreviations
- Parentheses
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Natural indexing
- Dictating to avoid editing
- Attorneys’ rules of construction
- Inserting minor opinions
- Word Order
- Terminology
- Anatomical Terminology
- Latin and Greek
- Slang
- Brand names
- General Terminology.