Post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging with computed tomography-guided biopsy for foetuses and infants: a prospective, multicentre, cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Christoph Martin Rüegger (Author), Dominic Gascho (Author), Peter Karl Bode (Author), Elisabeth Bruder (Author), Christian Haslinger (Author), Steffen Ross (Author), Kevin Schmid (Author), Claudia Knöpfli (Author), Lisa J. Hofer (Author), Leonhard Held (Author), Rosa Maria Martinez (Author), Hans Ulrich Bucher (Author), for the Virtopsy Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Post-mortem imaging has been suggested as an alternative to conventional autopsy in the prenatal and postnatal periods. Noninvasive autopsies do not provide tissue for histological examination, which may limit their clinical value, especially when infection-related morbidity and...