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Macerated Stillbirth

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Fetal and Neonatal Pathology

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Despite the increasing accuracy of prenatal detection of birth defects and genetic disorders, necropsy still provides the final diagnosis in many cases and serves as an “ultimate audit”. In Berger’s view (1978) “Any single autopsy may not have dramatic import for progress in medicine, but it may have profound and lifelong implications for helping the dead child’s family”. Necropsy results are of great impor-tance to the parents of stillborn infants. However, the task of autopsy on a macerated stillbirth is too often delegated to the least experienced junior trainee pathologist.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Pathology and Cytogenetics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, EH9 1LF, UK

    Jean W. Keeling MBBS, FRCPath, FRCP (Edin) (Consultant Paediatric Pathologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pathology) (Consultant Paediatric Pathologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pathology)

  2. University of Edinburgh, UK

    Jean W. Keeling MBBS, FRCPath, FRCP (Edin) (Consultant Paediatric Pathologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pathology) (Consultant Paediatric Pathologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pathology)

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Moore, I.E. (1993). Macerated Stillbirth. In: Keeling, J.W. (eds) Fetal and Neonatal Pathology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3802-0_7

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