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. 1982 Sep;35(9):909–921. doi: 10.1136/jcp.35.9.909

The maternal autopsy

DI Rushton 1,2, IMP Dawson 1,2
PMCID: PMC497839  PMID: 7119126

Abstract

Careful study of reports prepared for the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in England and Wales has made it clear that many maternal autopsy reports are not as informative as they might be. This is, in part at least, because no pathologist who does not work in a maternity unit can expect to see more than a handful of such deaths in a working lifetime. This paper describes briefly the particular features to look for at autopsy, stresses the importance of taking adequate material for histology and discusses some of the more significant histological findings, both of conditions which cause death and of those commonly associated with it.

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