Sudden intrauterine unexplained death: time to adopt uniform postmortem investigative guidelines?

• Main Authors: Anna M. Lavezzi (Author), Francesco Piscioli (Author), Teresa Pusiol (Author), Gianfranco Jorizzo (Author), Stefano Ferrero (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Worldwide approximately 2.6 million are stillborn, mostly occurring in developing countries. In the great part these deaths are inexplicable. The evenness and standardisation of the diagnostic criteria are prerequisites to understand their pathogenesis. The core goal of this arti...