Postmortem examination of human fetuses: comparison of two-dimensional ultrasound with invasive autopsy.
X KangS C ShelmerdineI HurtadoE BevilacquaC HutchinsonU MandaliaV SegersT Cos SanchezM M CannieA CarlinN J SebireO J ArthursJacques C JaniPublished in: Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2019)
Although maceration may lead to failure of postmortem ultrasound examination in some cases, this technique achieves diagnostically acceptable levels of accuracy for fetal brain and abdominal organs, compared with conventional autopsy. It may therefore play a role as a first-line examination before other virtual autopsy techniques are indicated. Copyright © 2017 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.