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In this chapter, the general principles of pediatric autopsies are discussed, including the death certificate, deaths that must be referred to a medical examiner, the jurisdiction of the medical examiner, manners of death, benefits of an autopsy, and donor organs in this population.
Mantui vivas docueran.
(Let the dead teach the living).
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Gilbert-Barness, E., Spicer, D.E., Steffensen, T.S. (2014). Introduction and General Principles of Autopsy. In: Handbook of Pediatric Autopsy Pathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6711-3_1
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