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Forensic Path Index

Introduction
- Adult Autopsy
  - Differential Diagnoses by presentation/external appearance
    - No history, externally normal
    - Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- Pediatric Autopsy
  - Differential Diagnoses by presentation/external appearance
    - No history, externally normal
      - Cardiac
        Conduction system abnormalities
        Long QT syndrome
        Congenital cardiac malformation
      - Metabolic

Non-trauma: General
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- Drowning
- Electrical injury
  - General
- Temperature injury
- Medical by disease
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  - Cardiac causes of death
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    - Cardiomyopathy (implies an element of chronicity)
      - Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
      - Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
    - Acute Myocardial Infarction
  - Infectious causes of death
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    - Bacteria
    - Fungus
    - Virus
    - Other infections
      - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  - Neurologic causes of death
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    - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- ...by findings
  - Kidney
    - Fatty kidney
  - Liver
    - Fatty liver
    - Fulminant hepatic failure

Trauma: General
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Specific conditions
- Compartment Syndromes
  - Acute Orbital Compartment Syndrome

Toxicology
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Ancillary Procedures/Investigations
- By Procedure/Investigation
  - Post-mortem microbiology
  - Post-mortem imaging
    - Post-mortem CT scan
    - Post-mortem X-ray

By Circumstances of Death

History

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