The Ragged-Gowned Philanthropist: Miss Lamotte’s Post-Mortem Auction, 1769*

The deleterious effect of post mortem degeneration results in a progressive loss of ultrastructural detail. This had led to reluctance (if not refusal) to examine autopsy material by means of transmission electron microscopy. Nevertheless, Johannesen has drawn attention to the fact that a sufficient amount of significant features may be preserved in order to enable the establishment of a definitive diagnosis, even on “graveyard” tissue.Routine histopathology of the autopsy organs of a woman of 78 showed the presence of a well circumscribed adenoma in the anterior lobe of the pituitary. The lesion came into close apposition to the pars intermedia. Its architecture was more compact and less vascular than that of the anterior lobe. However, there was some grouping of the cells in relation to blood vessels. The cells tended to be smaller, with a higher nucleocytoplasmic ratio. The cytoplasm showed a paucity of granules. In some of the cells, it was eosinophilic.

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Post-Mortem Review and Genetic Analysis of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Cases

Yearbook of Neurology and Neurosurgery ◽

10.1016/j.yneu.2011.04.011 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2011 ◽

pp. 42-43

Author(s):

M.J. Brodie

Keyword(s):

Genetic Analysis ◽

Sudden Unexpected Death ◽

Post Mortem ◽

Unexpected Death

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Post-mortem Peyer’s patches: Their potential application in forensic medicine

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology ◽

10.1080/08923970902902437 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 00 (00) ◽

pp. 090513010017019-7

Author(s):

Biagio Solarino ◽

Giancarlo Di Vella ◽

Thea Magrone ◽

Felicita Jirillo ◽

Angela Tafaro ◽

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Keyword(s):

Forensic Medicine ◽

Potential Application ◽

Peyer's Patches ◽

Peyer’S Patches ◽

Post Mortem

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Aneurysms in the history of medicine

VASA ◽

10.1024/0301-1526.31.4.281 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 281-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bollinger ◽

Rüttimann

Keyword(s):

History Of Medicine ◽

Albert Einstein ◽

Thomas Mann ◽

Post Mortem ◽

John Hunter ◽

History Of

Die Geschichte des sackförmigen oder fusiformen Aneurysmas reicht in die Zeit der alten Ägypter, Byzantiner und Griechen zurück. Vesal 1557 und Harvey 1628 führten den Begriff in die moderne Medizin ein, indem sie bei je einem Patienten einen pulsierenden Tumor intra vitam feststellten und post mortem verifizierten. Weitere Eckpfeiler bildeten die Monographien von Lancisi und Scarpa im 18. bzw. beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert. Die erste wirksame Therapie bestand in der Kompression des Aneurysmasacks von außen, die zweite in der Arterienligatur, der John Hunter 1785 zum Durchbruch verhalf. Endoaneurysmoraphie (Matas) und Umhüllung mit Folien wurden breit angewendet, bevor Ultraschalldiagnostik und Bypass-Chirurgie Routineverfahren wurden und die Prognose dramatisch verbesserten. Die diagnostischen und therapeutischen Probleme in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts werden anhand von zwei prominenten Patienten dargestellt, Albert Einstein und Thomas Mann, die beide im Jahr 1955 an einer Aneurysmaruptur verstarben.

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