Table 1.

Overview of the monthly total number of samples, tissue blocks and slides per year for the first trimester

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	p
Total number of samples					<0.001
2017	6,042	6,098	6,835	5,317
2018	6,305	5,733	6,658	5,616
2019	6,287	6,290	6,011	5,448
2020	5,856	5,374	3,723	1,585
Total number of tissue blocks				<0.001
2017	8,577	8,198	9,016	7,133
2018	7,622	6,577	7,966	6,533
2019	7,176	7,266	7,957	7,512
2020	6,698	7,444	5,806	3,069
Total number of slides					<0.001
2017	18,397	17,720	19,755	16,348
2018	18,926	15,921	19,952	16,470
2019	18,950	18,080	19,403	18,160
2020	19,161	18,423	16,467	8,676
Foetal and adult autopsies					0.759
2017	8	4	5	9
2018	5	5	6	6
2019	12	7	9	5
2020	10	9	7	14